So you think engineering seems like pretty dull stuff?

Think again. Projects headed by Raytheon engineers could lead us to a day when high-tech tools – like the ‘pinch' in the flick Ocean's Eleven – are used to cut power and paralyze the enemy.

Work taking place at Raytheon Missile Systems today offers a promising future of new technologies that bring the edges of imagination to the marketplace.

"My job is to make sure we're investing in the next generation of cool technology and take the great engineering workforce we have here and apply them to an adjacent market," said Michael W. Booen, Raytheon's vice president of advanced security and directed energy systems.

At a company known for missiles and a slate of weapons provided to the Department of Defense as well as international customers, the future may lead to the type of non-explosive – or non-kinetic – devices that have long been in the realm of science fiction.