ELECTRICAL VEHICLE STOPPER PROGRAM POC: AMSRL-OP-SD-PC. Army Research Laboratory, ALC Procurement Division, ATTN: AMSRL-OP-SD-PC (L. Hess), 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is offering the opportunity for contractors and other Government agencies that have been working on techniques to electrically stop commercial vehicles, to demonstrate their concepts and/or technology. This evaluation is being conducted in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) for the ultimate benefit of all Department of Justice (DoJ) and other Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) interested in interdicting vehicles involved in unlawful flight. ARL is interested in three types of techniques, which are direct injection/induction, non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse (NEMP)/ultra wideband (UWB), and radio frequency (RF)/microwave sources. ARL is offering that parties with hardware be demonstrated first while parties with concepts be demonstrated subsequently. For each of the parties with hardware, the Government will provide several different types of vehicles for static testing as well as dynamic testing on a chassis dynamometer. ARL has the capability and facilities to simulate all known electrical concepts at this time and intends to conduct experiments on those presently only at the conceptual stage. ARL has a variety of high-voltage pulsers with charge voltage up to 150 kilovolts (kV) with a single pulse capability. ARL has the ability to simulate NEMP sources with the following parameters: up to 150 kV/meter (m) at 1 m range, 100 to 200 picosecond rise time and 1 to 3 nanosecond fall time with pulse repetition rates of up to 6 kiloHertz (kHz). ARL has a large variety of microwave sources with powers of from 10 Watts (W) to multi-MegaWatt levels over the frequency range from 0.4 to 40 giga Hertz (GHz). The invitees hardware or technique will be measured as to its ability to electrically stop the various types of vehicles and provide data that will be compared to relevant safety standards (such as the ``IEEE Standard for Safety levels with Respect to Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, 3 kHz to 300 GHz,'' IEEE C95.1-1991). Interested parties are requested to submit a white paper describing their hardware, technique, and process (to include hardware or technique specifications and requirements). All interested parties will then be required to attend a mandatory briefing that will describe all of the Government's interests and relevant procedures. Subsequent to this meeting, interested parties will be afforded the opportunity to being in their hardware or witness conceptual simulations in an actual experiment. All data and results will be treated as proprietary. Results will be summarized in a final tabulation for use in potential future acquisition actions by DoD, DoJ, or LEAs. There are no Government funds available to support the participants costs nor shall this be construed as a commitment by the Government to proceed with any follow-on program. The white paper response is required within 15 days from the date of this publication, any late responses shall not be considered. No telephonic inquires will be accepted. All interested parties will be considered.

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