Blast Overpressure Mitigation for Military Training Environments
EBSS develops engineering-control systems that mitigate BOP exposure during military training — without reducing realism, cadence, or readiness.
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Designed to Protect
Range • Close Quarters / Urban Training Environments • Explosive Breaching • MOUT / SOUC • Other High-BOP Training Environments
RSOs • Instructors • Gunners • Assistant Gunners • Breachers • Assault Teams • Training Cadre • Nearby Training Personnel
Training Realism Creates Repeated Blast Exposure
Military training requires realism. Shoulder-fired weapons, heavy weapons, explosive breaching, CQB, MOUT, and other high-BOP training events can place personnel near blast sources across repeated evolutions, training days, courses, and careers.
That exposure does not stop with the shooter or breacher. RSOs, instructors, assistant gunners, safety personnel, students, assault teams, and nearby training personnel absorb repeated blast-overpressure exposure because their mission requires them to remain close enough to observe, coach, and control safety.
DoW now identifies blast overpressure as a brain-health and performance concern, with potential effects that include headache, dizziness, cognitive disruption, fatigue, sleep disruption, ringing ears, and other neurological symptoms. DoW’s current interim BOP exposure safety threshold is 4 psi, requiring risk-management actions when exposures meet or exceed that level.
For EBSS, the mission is clear: reduce preventable blast-overpressure burden before it becomes a long-term brain-health, performance, readiness, or quality-of-life issue for the warfighter.
EBSS addresses the problem upstream by integrating engineering controls into the training environment — reducing exposure while preserving realistic military training.
Repeated Exposure
High-BOP training exposure accumulates across training days, courses, evolutions, and careers.
High-Dose Roles
RSOs, instructors, breachers, assistant gunners, and training cadre can carry repeated exposure across many training events.
Readiness Impact
Headache, fatigue, ringing ears, sleep disruption, and cognitive delay affect recovery, performance, and readiness.
4 psi
DoW’s current interim BOP exposure safety threshold requiring risk-management action when exposure meets or exceeds that level.
Distance-Based Guidance Has Limits
For live-fire and range environments, ALARA-based guidance and weapon-specific standoff practices help reduce unnecessary exposure by moving personnel farther from the weapon, backblast area, or firing event where practical.
For explosive breaching, CQB/C, MOUT, SOUC, and other close-quarters training environments, distance-based guidance helps establish safer standoff practices based on the training event, charge configuration, facility layout, and expected blast effects.
Both approaches are important. EBSS does not replace them.
But both are fundamentally distance-based — and distance is not always controllable where realism, safety oversight, facility geometry, and environmental variables shape the training environment.
EBSS complements ALARA, MSD, and other distance-based practices by adding physical engineering controls where distance alone is limited by training realism, safety oversight, confined-space geometry, and environmental variables.
Range Training Environments
BOP exposure can be affected by variables that are difficult to control or predict, including weapon system, ammunition type, firing position, shooter posture, RSO/instructor location, range geometry, surface materials, berms, walls, overhead cover, terrain, wind, humidity, temperature, atmospheric pressure, and repeated firing cadence.
Close-Quarters / Urban Training Environments
In CQB, CQC, MOUT, SOUC, room clearing, dynamic entry, explosive breaching, and confined-space tactical training, distance becomes further constrained. Walls, hallways, rooms, corners, charge placement, door construction, and confined or semi-confined spaces can create reflected pressure, localized hotspots, and impulse effects that simple standoff distance may not fully address.
EBSS Engineering Controls
EBSS systems complement distance-based guidance by adding physical engineering controls that reduce reliance on distance alone and support more consistent BOP mitigation across variable range, close-quarters, breaching, environmental, and facility conditions.
Engineering Controls for Whole-Body BOP Mitigation
Reduce Avoidable Exposure
Mitigate blast effects where personnel are repeatedly positioned.
Improve Repeatability
Use physical systems and positioning cues to support consistent implementation.
Preserve Training Realism
Support realistic weapons and close-quarters / urban training without impacting SOPs - standard operating procedures.
Support Risk Management
Give leaders practical engineering-control options as BOP policy and tracking mature.
EBSS focuses on practical mitigation at the source of repeated exposure: the firing lane, the instructor position, the shooter position, the breach point, and the hard surfaces that shape the blast environment.
Our systems are designed to help commands reduce avoidable blast overpressure exposure while preserving the realism, intensity, and throughput required for military training.
TWO Systems. One Mission:
BORS
Blast Overpressure Range System
For high-BOP weapons training ranges
BORS is EBSS’s range-based system for high-BOP weapons training environments. It is designed to support physical mitigation, repeatable personnel positioning, and more consistent range-lane configuration.
Designed for Tier-1 and other high-BOP range training environments
Supports RSOs, instructors, gunners, assistant gunners, and adjacent personnel
Defines repeatable protected positions for consistent BOP mitigation
Supports pilot-lane deployment and operational evaluation
Addresses blast and reflected blast in open range high-BOP training conditions
C-BOS
Close-Quarters Blast Overpressure System
For close-quarters and urban training environments
C-BOS is EBSS’s system for close-quarters and urban training environments where blast waves can reflect from hard surfaces and create complex exposure pathways.
Designed for CQB, CQC, shoot-house, MOUT, SOUC, room-clearing, dynamic entry, and breaching environments
Supports breachers, assault teams, instructors, safety personnel, and training cadre
Applies to walls, ceilings, floors, hallways, rooms, and high-reflection zones
Supports retrofit, pilot-room, and facility-specific deployment
Addresses reflected blast in enclosed and semi-enclosed training spaces
Reduce BOP Risk Without Softening Training.
Live-Fire Informed. Operationally Grounded.
EBSS development is informed by operational experience, training-environment realities, and instrumented live-fire testing.
In observed shoulder-fired rocket training, measured peak overpressure behind the shield was substantially lower than outside-shield measurements when personnel were properly positioned.
Test context and considerations are available during qualified stakeholder briefings.
87%
Reduction in average peak BOP from 10.6 psi to 1.4 psi.
Blast overpressure has moved from an under-managed training hazard to an active force-health, readiness, and policy concern.
Repeated blast exposure can affect training recovery, performance, and long-term force health.
Why BOP Mitigation Matters Now
Operational Readiness
Accountability
Commands are being asked to better understand, manage, and document blast exposure risk.
EBSS gives military leaders practical engineering-control options that support this shift without reducing the realism of required training.
Mitigation
DoW attention is increasing around blast exposure education, mitigation, tracking, and risk management.
Engineering controls provide a practical path to reduce avoidable exposure at the point of training.
Veteran-Founded. Mission-Driven. Built from Training Experience.
EBSS was founded by Michael Eaves, a retired U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer and Special Operations veteran with direct experience in high-BOP training environments, range operations, and repeated exposure as both a warfighter and training leader.
Mike saw the same problem across training: the personnel responsible for building readiness — RSOs, instructors, gunners, assistant gunners, breachers, and training cadre — often remain closest to repeated blast events.
EBSS was built to solve that problem with practical engineering controls that help commands preserve realistic training while reducing avoidable blast-overpressure exposure.
Special Operations veteran-founded
Designed from real range and training experience
Focused on practical engineering controls
Built for range, close-quarters, and urban training environments
U.S.-based and SDVOSB-aligned
“EBSS helps military leaders predictably reduce blast-overpressure exposure through practical engineering controls built for high-BOP training environments.“
Request a Blast Overpressure Mitigation Brief
EBSS provides concise capability briefings for range leadership, training commands, safety personnel, requirements shops, program offices, acquisition stakeholders, and mission owners evaluating blast overpressure mitigation options.
Briefing Topics
Operational BOP exposure problem
BORS and C-BOS system overview
Live-fire and testing context
Pilot lane, pilot room, and implementation pathways
Requirements-support and fielding considerations
BOP Insights
