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Sandia Offers Non-explosive Fertilizer Formula
A Sandia engineer who trained U.S. soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate a bomb. It’s an alternative to ammonium nitrate, an agricultural staple that is also the raw ingredient in most of the IEDs in Afghanistan. Sandia has decided not to patent or [...]
JLENS-Mounted Sensors Observe Mock-IED Demo
A recent demonstration proved that operators can observe surface moving targets — including a terrorist role-player planting an improvised explosive device — in real time using a Raytheon Company (RTN) MTS-B Multi-Spectral Targeting System mounted on the JLENS. During the Raytheon-funded demonstration, and despite heavy smoke from recent, naturally-occurring forest fires, an MTS-B electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) [...]
Counter IED Lab Saves Lives in Afghanistan
Of all the weapons deployed by terrorists the improvised explosive device (IED) is the most effective, causing more combat casualties than any other method of attack in Afghanistan. NATO Exploitation Level Two for C-IED requires intermediate processing of information in theatre for investigation of IED events. This implies a forward deployed asset with sufficient capacity [...]
Congress told IEDs will remain ‘weapon of choice’ for decades
Improvised explosive devices and the networks that use these asymmetric weapons, will remain an enduring threat to U.S. forces and the nation for decades to come, the Defense Department’s top counter-IED official told lawmakers, Sept. 20. “The IED (improvised explosive device) is the weapon of choice for threat networks because they are cheap, made from [...]
Threat of Terrorist IED’s Growing, Expanding, General Says
The threat posed by crude homemade bombs known as improvised explosive devices is growing and spreading across the globe, and will be the terrorists’ weapon of choice for decades, the commander of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization said yesterday. “We still need to do more,” Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Barbero told the [...]
Division West Soldiers test new technology to defeat IEDs
Military combat engineers and civilian technical experts gathered here recently to conduct a series of experiments aimed at providing Soldiers with new technology in the counter-improvised explosive device fight. A diverse group of scientists, trainers and Soldiers from across the country — including Soldiers of 3rd Battalion (Engineer), 364th Regiment, 5th Armored Brigade,”Task Force Rampant,” [...]
Harris Unveils New Robotic System for Remotely Disarming IEDs
Harris Corporation will demonstrate its new RedHawk system used for remotely disarming improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during the AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 6-9. Designed using input from hundreds of Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) operators, RedHawk is tailored for the demanding missions of explosive ordnance disposal technicians and first [...]
Counter-IEDs: Multiple DOD Organizations are Developing Numerous Initiatives
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are the enemy’s weapon of choice (e.g., 16,500 IEDs were detonated or discovered being used against U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2011) and, according to the Department of Defense (DOD) will probably be a mainstay in any present and future conflict given their low cost to develop coupled with their potential [...]
R.A.T.S. research may teach rodents to detect explosives
A rat may never be man’s best friend, but the Rugged Automated Training System research sponsored by scientists with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, in collaboration with engineers at West Point and the Counter Explosives Hazards Center, will determine if and how these animals can be trained to save Soldiers’ lives. In July, Barron Associates [...]
