Military Contract for Pulsed Energy Projectile (PEP) Pain Study University of Florida to figure out how to get maximum pain out of "non-lethal" directed-energy weapon

In this contract under the Naval Research Center (a part of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program), the University of Florida is studying the "Sensory Consequences of Electromagentic Pulses Emitted by Laser Induced Plasmas." In other words, how much pain can be induced by these directed energy weapons without causing physical damage?

The document has a fairly high level of redaction, including - unbelievably - almost half of its bibliography. Still, it reveals some interesting things, including a detailed look at inducing agony by directly activating the skin's receptors that encode pain without means of heat, chemicals, or physical contact.

Thanks go to Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project for unearthing this document and letting The Memory Hole post it.

Technical notes: This document was received by the Sunshine Project on 10 Jan 2005 from the University of Florida due to a state open-records request. It was scanned by the Project's Edward Hammond, who writes: "I have deleted all of the boilerplate pages of the contract. Included are the first few pages, and then the Statement of Work, which is a ten page annex."

http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/weapons/navy-ufl_pep_contract.htm
http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/weapons/navy-ufl_pep_contract.pdf


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