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Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate
The Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program stimulates and coordinates non-lethal weapons requirements of the U.S. Armed Services and is the resource sponsor for the development of technologies to satisfy these requirements. The Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps serves as the DOD Non-Lethal Weapons Executive Agent.

Located aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate serves as the Executive Agent's day-to-day management office. The U.S. Armed Services work with the Combatant Commanders and the Executive Agent through a joint process to identify requirements and coordinate the planning, programming and funding of non-lethal weapons research, development, and test and evaluation. These efforts directly support the Services and United States Special Operations Command in their efforts to procure and field a wide range of non-lethal capabilities. All legal and arms compliance reviews must be completed before fielding of non-lethal weapon.

In the 15 years since the program's inception the need for non-lethal weapons, devices and munitions—both counter-personnel and counter-materiel—continues to grow in support of the multitude of DOD missions being conducted around the world. Whether engaged in counterterrorism, stability and reconstruction, or anti-piracy operations, U.S. forces will need to be adept at employing less than lethal techniques to complement lethal capabilities and to have the means to satisfy a critical tenet common to counterinsurgency operations—protection of the population.

In recent years, the program has achieved success in fielding both programs of record and responding to urgent operational needs. An array of non-lethal weapons, devices and munitions are available now for conducting checkpoint operations, convoys, area security, patrols, detainee operations, crowd control, maritime operations and other missions. Today's non-lethal inventory includes acoustic hailing devices, vehicle arresting devices, electric stun guns, vehicle launched grenades, multi-sensory munitions, optical distracters and voice translation devices—all proven technologies that provide reversible effects and applicability across the spectrum of irregular operations.

Non-lethal weapons are explicitly designed and primarily employed to incapacitate personnel or materiel while minimizing fatalities, significant injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property in the target area or environment. Although non-lethal capabilities have matured from the days of riot batons and rubber bullets, much more needs to be done to increase versatility and further expand the range of non-lethal options available to U.S. forces. Several new or improved capabilities are currently advancing through the development process including: the Vehicle Arresting Device, Improved Acoustic Hailing Device, 12 Gauge Extended Range Marking Munition, Mission Payload Module, Airburst Non-Lethal Munition, Improved Flash Bang Grenade, Green Laser Interdiction System, and the Ocular Interruption Device.