DoD Funding Opportunity - Reversible Barriers

The Reversible Barriers (ReBar) program is soliciting proposals due 14 September 2005. Military operations on the ground include both direct combat and other dangerous and labor-intensive activities such as searching buildings for weapons or personnel, hostage rescue, ground intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and more. These kinds of activities are especially prevalent in military operations in urban terrain and counter-insurgency, and are very manpower-intensive. The ability to quickly and easily prevent or restrict access to both building and outside areas would be tremendously advantageous to US forces, especially if this could be done in a rapidly reversible manner. The goal of the Reversible Barrier program is to develop barriers that can be rapidly emplaced and reversed to allow fluid US force movement. This new generation of barrier technology should have a set of features including (a) light-weight and portable, (b) very strong and resistant to various types of attack, (c) quick and easy to install, and (d) rapidly reversible only for U.S. and allied personnel. Read more