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National Defense
November 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Boston Attack Highlights Bomb Squad Shortfalls The nation's 466 bomb squads have urgent needs for robots that can help them do their jobs, said a leading expert in counter-improvised explosive device technologies. The problem is that they don't have much money to upgrade their systems.   |
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
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
June 2012
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Bomb Prevention Program Sees Uptick in Users After seeing a stagnant number of users for the first four years, a Department of Homeland Security webportal designed to share information on improvised explosive devices is finally beginning to grow, a representative of the TRIPwire program said. |
National Defense
May 2010
Stew Magnuson |
With No Budget, Joint Federal Office Tackles High Explosives Problem The Joint Program Office for Combating Terrorist Use of Explosives recently marked its one-year anniversary and is beginning to tick off items on a long list of recommendations designed to thwart terrorists from employing bombs on U.S. soil. |
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. |
National Defense
April 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Interagency Group Looking For a Few Good Innovations The interagency organization that fosters counterterrorism technologies and puts them into the hands of military or civilian users has seen a steady increase in funding. But for companies large and small hoping to win a contract, the challenges can be daunting. |
National Defense
April 2014
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Counterterrorism Office Seeks Array of Technologies Devices to defeat improvised bombs and chemical and biological weapons are among its most acute needs. |
National Defense
July 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Plan to Create Center To Thwart Domestic Bombings Falls Short A proposal to put under one roof representatives of government agencies that are involved in thwarting the use of explosives as weapons of terror in the United States has been scrapped. |
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
March 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Counterterrorism Office Looking for a Few Good Homeland Security Ideas The Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office is responsible for funding innovative ideas that can help operators on the tactical edge defeat non-state actors attacking civilian targets. |
National Defense
September 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Improvised Bombs Have a Long History in U.S. Improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs, have been used to sow terror in the United States for longer than you may think. |
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. |
National Defense
May 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Anti-Terrorism Focus A government research organization that traditionally has concentrated on homeland defense efforts is shifting its attention to the problem of improvised explosive devices, which are taking a heavy toll on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. |
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
June 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Catching Terrorists Carrying Bombs Still a Tough Problem to Solve When police in Watertown, Mass., honed in on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat stored in a backyard in April, they had several tools familiar to service members who fought in the Iraq and Afghan wars at their disposal. |
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
July 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Small Tent Buys Time to Respond to Suspicious Packages This foldable tent allows first responders to buy time while they wait for explosive ordnance disposal technicians to arrive on scene. |
AskMen.com
April 15, 2013 |
Boston Marathon Explosions Multiple news sites are reporting that two bombs were detonated near the finish line at the Boston Marathon earlier today resulting in two dead and 64 injured. |
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
December 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Special Ops Explosive Material Test Kit Offered to First Responders A new trace explosives field-test kit used by special operators in Afghanistan is sharply reducing the amount of time it takes to determine the presence and type of bomb-making materials. |
National Defense
September 2010
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Lab Tries to Stay One Step Ahead of Bomb Makers Patrick O'Conner gets paid to make bombs for the Transportation Security Laboratory. |
National Defense
September 2013
Jeffrey Trumbore |
Combat Experience of Bomb-Disposal Teams Should Be Codified The last 12 years of conflict have firmly established the roles of explosive ordnance disposal teams in supporting joint operations. |
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 |
Defense Update
Issue 2, 2005 |
IED -- Shaped Charges Attacks on American troops from IEDs are on the rise. US forces are using jamming devices to disable remote controlled denotation, but the insurgents are adapting with new techniques. |
National Defense
February 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Second-Hand Bomb Suits: A Welcome Relief Members of the 3rd explosive ordnance disposal attachment at Camp San Arturo T. Enrile are happy to have any bomb suit. |
National Defense
November 2010 |
Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Robotic Mules, Bad Idea... Next Wave of Suicide Bombers... Defense Budget Woes... |
National Defense
October 2009
Tessa Gellerson |
Law Enforcement Needs Guidance To Root Out Terrorist Plots, Says Report Good old fashioned police work has been far more effective in thwarting terrorist plots than high-tech data mining schemes. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
July 9, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Hurt Locker: Iraqi Explosive Ordnance Disposal Hits the Big Screen In The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow directs Jeremy Renner as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team leader. Real-life training and tech is explored with Capt. Robert Busseau, an EOD operations officer for the Army's 20th Support Command. |
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
March 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Companies Introduce New Software to Defeat Suicide Bombers The military continues to invest in behavior prediction software that can alert defense and law enforcement agencies to a terrorist threat in real time. |
National Defense
June 2008
Stew Magnuson |
First Responders Slow to Take Up Robot Technology First responders investigating potential incendiary devices are utilizing the latest robotic devices, but other parts of the emergency services community have been slow to take up the technology. |
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. |
Wired
November 2005
Noah Shachtman |
The Baghdad Bomb Squad Buried roadside explosives. Armor-piercing shrapnel. Rooftop gunfire. Just another 29-hour day at the office for Team Mayhem and its army of little claw-tipped robots. |
National Defense
April 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Defense, Law-Enforcement Agencies Seek Advanced Surveillance Tools Suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices and the threats of chemical or biological weapons are creating increased demand for cutting edge technologies that can detect or survey potential hazards from stand-off distances. |
National Defense
March 2005
Roxana Tiron |
Insurgents Learn to Exploit U.S. Military's Vulnerabilities As insurgents continue to develop more lethal means to attack U.S. forces and allies in Iraq, both military and private security officials have been conducting briefings on how to recognize and avoid the ubiquitous threats of suicide bombs, roadside mines and ambushes. |
Reason
October 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Pansies of New York Regarding random police searches in New York, if any measure that is ostensibly aimed at preventing terrorism is justified simply because some people believe it will prevent terrorism, we might as well forget about our constitutional rights. |
National Defense
June 2015
Allyson Versprille |
Bomb Squad Robots Taking Human Form Bombs squads across the United States are seeking robots that resemble the human form as servicemen and first responders face situations where more dexterity and flexibility are needed, said industry and law enforcement leaders. |
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. |
National Defense
February 2015
Valerie Insinna |
New Software Uses Artificial Intelligence To Sift Through Data As the military and U.S. intelligence agencies struggle to digest mountains of information captured from social media and sensors all over the world, companies continue to create software that can more quickly and accurately help analysts isolate relevant data. |
National Defense
February 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Navy Researchers Probing Secrets of Fido's Nose Because scientists are still struggling to develop technologies that can sniff out explosives as effectively as the canine nose, the armed forces in the meantime have turned to man's best friend for help in countering hidden bombs. |
National Defense
June 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Public Still in the Dark When it Comes to Dirty Bomb Threat The federal government has come up short in public information campaigns to educate the public on what to do in the event of a radiation attack |
National Defense
February 2010
Jean & Wright |
Laser "Fizzles" IEDs, Rendering Them Harmless Boeing researchers have demonstrated that the company's laser weapon system can destroy improvised explosive devices while mounted to a combat vehicle. |
National Defense
October 2005
Andrea Pinchak |
Air Force Research Targets Insurgents' Bombs The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed and delivered "Bom Bots," small, remotely controlled robots that disable and dispose of roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices used by insurgents. |
National Defense
November 2010
Eric Beidel |
Trainers Go 'Hollywood' to Counter IEDs Coming soon to a theater of operations: Troops who use storytelling and role-play to defeat roadside bombs. As part of a new interactive program, military forces will play the part of insurgents and try to carry out simulated attacks on their colleagues. |
National Defense
May 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Group Cites Technology `Success Stories' The Rapidscan Secure 1000... The Remote Firing Device... The Fiber Optic Remote Amplifier Extension System (FORAX)... The Z Backscatter Van Drive-By Screening System... |
National Defense
June 2009
Erwin & Magnuson |
7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror. |
Defense Update
Issue 3, 2004 |
IED - A Weapons' Profile This article covers concepts, tactics and countermeasures against Improvised Explosive Devices, as encountered in the modern "low intensity conflicts" and urban battlefields. |
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 |
