What is the TIS-1?
In 1999, a Stavatti team consisting of three full-time employees developed a concept for a man-portable, directed energy weapon that we designated the TIS-1 (later SF-1) in direct response to a US Army ARDEC Request For Information (RFI) entitled Light Fighter Lethality After Next (LFLAN) Solicitation DAAE30-99-R-0414. Quoting directly from the LFLAN RFI: “To insure that our forces will continue to be equipped with superior small arms in the future, the Close Combat Armament Center is initiating a market survey to identify and assess technologies and concepts appropriate for the next generation small arms. This Light Fighter Lethality After Next (LFLAN) effort addresses the next generation, individual combat weapon system. This system will respond to the threats of the Army After Next and is expected to be fielded in the 2020 – 2025 timeframe .. It is important to note that offerors responding to this survey are to think “out of the box”, to submit revolutionary not evolutionary concep
