IED
Electronic Warfare Can Disable an Enemy Quietly
February 12 by John M. DoyleA flight of Israeli warplanes swoop in over northern Syria and destroy a suspected nuclear weapon manufacturing site without being noticed until their bombs are dropping on the facility. How? The Is...
Heel, Drop, Roll and Sniff Out IEDs, Good Boy!
December 20 by IDGA StaffIt takes a lot of time and money developing technologies that adequately locate and diffuse the IED threat. According to Lisa Albuquerque, Program Manager of the Naval Expeditionary Dog Program, Dog...
Every IED incident site is a life saving opportunity
June 14 by Joseph PolaninEOD Technicians are critical to the success of defusing the dynamic and lethal threat of IEDs across the globe. How they learn, how they think, and how they combat our adversaries’ weapon of c...
Countering the IEDs designed to kill them...
June 14 by IDGA EditorListen Up! EOD Technicians are critical to the success of defusing the dynamic and lethal threat of IEDs across the globe. How they learn, how they think, and how they combat our adversaries’...
Analysis of Reactive Steel Armor (RSA) and Mitigating IED Threats
March 17 by IDGA StaffImprovised explosive devices (IEDs) have been responsible for many of the 4,000+ deaths and numerous casualties suffered by US and coalition forces since the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. The bo...
Countering the IED Threat Network with Robert Vitrikas
October 26 by IDGA EditorRobert Vitrikas, Program Manager for the Counter Improvised Explosive Device Targeting Progarm (CITP) at the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) in Charlottesville, VA, discusses the latest a...
Dr. Philip Womble on Countering IEDs and Limitations of Neutron-Based Explosive Detection Systems
September 14 by IDGA EditorDr. Philip Womble, Professor at the Applied Physics Institute at Western Kentucky University, discusses the limitations of neutron-based detection systems at IDGA's Counter-IED Summit in January 201...
Col Yori Escalante, USMC on Defeating IEDs by Defeating the Source
September 01 by IDGA EditorCol Yori R. Escalante, USMC discusses defeating IEDs by defeating the source at IDGA's Counter-IED summit in January 2010. Col Escalante is the Deputy Director for Programs at the Dept of State Off...
Defeating IED Threats with Scott Blaney
August 17 by IDGA EditorScott Blaney, Senior Military Analyst at the Center for Army Lessons Learned Combat Analysis Branch, discusses efforts to combat IED threats at IDGA's Counter-IED Summit in January 2010. He discuss...
Using Image Scanning to Mitigate the IED threat
July 08 by IDGA EditorPaul Showgun, a radiologist at Walter Reed Medical Center and Tatjana Fischer from the NIH discuss using image scanning such as CT scanners to analyze and minimize the threat from IED blasts. The t...
Dr. Mark Fisher on Counter IED strategy
June 01 by IDGA EditorDr. Mark Fisher, who holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Oklahoma State University, discusses methods and forensic techniques to detect chemical signatures of explosives used in IEDs. The stra...
US Military Boosts Counter-IED Measures for Afghanistan
April 22 by IDGA EditorThe threat posed to Afghanistan forces by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) is constantly expanding. According to US Department of Defense (DOD) statistics, the number of IED attacks on Afghani...