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National Defense
July 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Pentagon Still Playing Catch-Up With Bomb Makers The U.S. military's cadre of bomb disposal technicians needs lighter equipment, the ability to detect explosives at stand-off distances and their sensors consolidated into one handheld device.   |
National Defense
October 2015
Stew Magnuson |
JIEDDO Emerges From Wars as Combat Support Agency In May, the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization was given a new name and a permanent place in the Pentagon bureaucracy under acquisition, technology and logistics at the office of the secretary of defense. |
National Defense
July 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Improvised Explosive Threat Reaches Global Scale The end state of successful accomplishment of a special U.S. military group's mission is eliminating the improvised explosive device as a weapon of strategic influence for the enemy. It's no singular, simple task. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008
John Keller |
Counter-IED System Procurement Sets New Standards for Speedy Deployment Leaders of the Pentagon's Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) are setting new standards for speedy weapon system procurement. They hope to fund systems to counter roadside bombs within two months from initial proposal. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Glenn Zorpette |
Countering IEDS Billions of dollars spent on defeating improvised explosive devices are beginning to show what technology can and cannot do for the evolving struggle |
National Defense
January 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Buried Bombs Can Be Destroyed, But Not Defeated The weapons of choice of U.S. enemies, improvised explosive devices, are like deadly viruses that mutate in reaction to vaccines. They cannot be wiped out, only temporarily thwarted. |
National Defense
April 2012
Sapolsky & Schrage |
More Than Technology Needed to Defeat Roadside Bombs Soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan call the bigger IEDs "Buffalo killers" for the type of MRAP that they can destroy. |
National Defense
April 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Mobile Simulators Give Soldiers Early Roadside Bomb Training The mobile counter-IED interactive trainer is one of two new simulators exposing ground forces to the hazards they may face before they arrive in Afghanistan or Iraq. |
National Defense
December 2009
Grace V. Jean |
To Train Troops, Army Creates Digital Reenactments of Roadside Bomb Attacks Video footage of insurgents burying improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, is among the data collected by analysts who are assisting simulation experts at the joint training counter-IED operations integration center. |
National Defense
October 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Bomb Squads Need the Best Tools Available Bomb squads -- both military and civilian -- deserve and need the very best technologies the nation can offer them. |
National Defense
January 2015
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Rapid Acquisition Groups Break Mold of Slow Pentagon Procurement System The Army's Rapid Equipping Force and the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, both established during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, were created in order to meet urgent operational needs rapidly. |
National Defense
January 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Mini-Flail Robots Readied for Afghanistan Bomb Clearing Operations The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization will send expendable robots to Afghanistan next year that can move ahead of dismounted troops and destroy hidden bombs. |
National Defense
October 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Reconnaissance Robots' Place on Battlefields Still Unsettled The fact that soldiers and Marines want small robots to perform reconnaissance and surveillance in battle zones -- particularly urban environments where they can be used to peer into buildings and around corners -- has been established. |
National Defense
January 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Adaptive Foe Thwarts Counter-IED Efforts Coalition forces are engaged in an ongoing invisible combat in the radio and infrared spectra. Iraqi insurgents have progressed from simple trip wires to infrared devices to set off improvised explosive devices. |
National Defense
November 2009
Erwin, Jean & Magnuson |
Today's Fights Expose Technological Weak Spots Disruptive challenges, such as roadside bombs, combatants camouflaged as civilians, and insurgent camps that are undetectable by electronic sensors, have forced U.S. military leaders to search for new tactics and technologies. |
National Defense
October 2006
Sandra Erwin |
Roadside Bombs: An `Arms Race' With No End in Sight Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Douglas Stone conveys to defense contractors and government scientists the frustration that military commanders experience in the war zone, where inescapably, almost on a daily basis, troops are killed and maimed by hidden explosives. |
National Defense
September 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Feds Begin to Tackle the Vexing Problem of How to Defeat Homemade Bombs Congress' attention remains focused on preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil, but improvised explosive devices do not receive the same attention as the chemical, biological or nuclear threats. |
National Defense
January 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Dept. to Host Industry Conference Targeting `Improvised Explosive Devices' Despite its technological prowess when it comes to weapon systems, the Pentagon has yet to come up with an effective solution to curb the rising casualty toll in Iraq resulting from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Glenn Zorpette |
Bomb Squad Diary A high-tech form of bomb disposal has evolved on the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan. It may be coming to a city near you |
National Defense
November 2006
Robert H. Williams |
Multiple sensor system finds roadside IEDs Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan will be receiving 67 gyro-stabilized camera systems that will be mounted on joint explosive ordnance disposal rapid response vehicles. |
National Defense
August 2012
Eric Beidel |
Search Continues For Driverless Convoy Vehicles The Pentagon has hit some stumbling blocks in its efforts to develop unmanned vehicles, but officials still have hopes of deploying a range of systems that can trick enemy fighters and keep troops safe from improvised explosive devices. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Can Applied Energetics Zap Its Way to Revenue? Applied Energetics has been contracting with the U.S. military to develop some high-tech methods to defeat improvised explosive devices. |
National Defense
October 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Ground Troops Demanding Smaller Robotic Systems Whether they are in the air or on the ground, small robots are increasingly becoming a vital part of a platoon's tactics, techniques and procedures. |
National Defense
June 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Bomb Making Skills Spread Globally The war in Iraq is accelerating the development of IED technology as terrorists and insurgents are forced to adapt their methods to defeat countermeasures. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2007
Courtney E. Howard |
Aided by Electronics It is a busy time for technology companies and defense organizations in the electronic warfare and signals intelligence industry. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2007 |
NAVSEA awards EDO Communications & Countermeasures Systems $209 million for IED jammers The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded EDO Communications & Countermeasures Systems a $209 million modification to a previous contract for the production and support of 3,000 vehicle-mounted counter radio-controlled IED electronic warfare systems. |
National Defense
July 2012
Eric Beidel |
Troops Fashion Makeshift Counter-IED Tool Marines and soldiers recently discovered that a pole used to install cable and wiring could be combined with a steel hook crafted locally in Afghanistan to form a new counter-IED tool. |
Parameters
Spring 2006
Ali A. Jalali |
The Future of Afghanistan Afghanistan is again at a crossroads. One road leads to peace and prosperity; the other leads to the loss of all that has been achieved. Everything depends on the level of international commitment to help Afghanistan emerge from the dark shadows of its recent past. |
