It’s called the Safe, Quick, Undercarriage Immobilization Device (SQUID). And according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Office, it’s a Spiderman-like “super-strong webbing … to stop vehicles in their tracks.”
S&T said that a need to stop vehicles remotely that was identified by the law enforcement community resulted in S&T issuing a solicitation, and that the SQUID was the response.
With funding from S&T and the expertise of Engineering Science Analysis Corporation’s (ESA) engineers, the SQUID prototype began development in 2010. And it was a success, S&T said.
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