Is May 1971 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Trip Report, Non-Lethal Personnel Ihcapacitation, Drs. 1. There was a. delay in full scale initiation of this work by --Ibecause of other uncompleted Agency assigm2-nents. Inas- much as future requirements for continuation o-; effort in this area is uncerta" the temporary delay was in no way detrimental to the completion of a hardware system. "lwill request a no-cost extension to compensate for the decreased expenditure rate during the first three months of the contract. Z. The pu2rpose of the meeting was to reach agreement on the future structure of the program. Although outstandingly competent in the broad medical and allied sciences fieldo assigned personnel were relatively naive in the general area of personnel incapacitation. Such a, situation is not uareasonable since most of the prior work in this area has been accomplished by eng2ineering and ordnance experts with occasional consultation from the biological sciences. During the past several months - /personnel have had an opportunity to .c;aturate themselves with the pertinent incapaci- tation literature. The present visit was an appropriate time to determine the efficient use of funds and direction of effort. The Proje2ct Officer had previously forwarded I an outline of possible program direction and they in turn had prepared a suggested program in terms of their particular capability. The results of the meetinn, resulted in a consensus of opinion which was mutually agree- Without detailed elaboration, the agreed upon at-le. zeneral principles included: (a) The general flavor would remain as outlined in the original proposal, i.e., the @ effort in the total program would be pri;:arily concerned with the biomedical aspects of long-range proyrams, as opposed to major parti- cipation in QRC-type projects. 4 40 (b) Although literature evaluation and review will continue, it will play a minor role in the total project. (c) Primary effort will be devoted to the considera- tion and evaluation of new concepts as opposed to refine- ment or evaluation of data in the traditional categories of impact, standard chem2ical, sound, and light systems of incapacitation. The search for new concepts will be directed from'the "inside out" biomedical point of view as opposed to most of the prior work which started with ordnance, or some form of external energy and then asked the question of "what eff ect,will this have on humans, it In the present case, th2e starting point will be potential vuinerability of physiological systems followed by the question of possible ordnance or other hardware equip- ment to accomplish the desired result. 3. Although ---'-'Ipersonnel have several new concepts under consideration, both they and the Project Officer are 0aware that a gamble on new ideas is a high-risk investment.