Officials in charge of equipping America's top commando units are looking for some high-tech drugs to help boost the performance if their 150 "multi-purpose canines."

According to news reports, U.S. Special Operations Command wants to find pharmaceutical products or nutritional supplements that will enhance canine hearing, eyesight and other senses.

Think of it as a "Q" for America's four-legged special operators.

Military Working Dog Toby, 23d Security Forces Squadron, prepares for an MWD demonstration, Feb. 2, 2017, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. Ttoby is a Belgian Malinois and specializes in personnel protection and detecting explosives. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Zachary Wolf)

According to an official solicitation for the Performance Enhancing Drugs, SOCOM is looking for a product or combination of products that will do the following:

Increase endurance

Improve a dog's ability to regulate body temperature

Improve hydration

Improve acclimatization to acute extremes in temperature, altitude, and/or time zone changes

Increase the speed of recovery from strenuous work

Improve hearing

Improve vision

Improve scent

Decrease adverse effects due to blood loss.

SOCOM's military working dogs have been front and center on several top commando raids — with the most famous being Cairo, a Belgian Malinois who joined SEAL Team 6 in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

SOCOM, though, is also looking to neutralize enemy K9s through what another solicitation calls "canine response inhibitors."

Now, during the Vietnam War, the preferred "canine response inhibitor" was known as the "Hush Puppy." But these days SOCOM is looking for some less permanent methods, including:

Inhibit barking, howling, and whining

Inhibit hearing

Inhibit vision

Inhibit scent

Induce unconsciousness

Induce movement away from the area where the effects are deployed

Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Julia A. Casper

Like the performance enhancers, the "canine response inhibitors" could also be used outside the military.

So, the company or companies that win the hearts and minds of SOCOM's puppies could catch a huge break.