JIEDDO Overview
- 20 pages
- For Official Use Only
- July 2009
• Enemy will focus on irregular warfare using asymmetric means to attack and influence advanced nations
• Conventional, unconventional, lethal, non-lethal, state supported, non-state, hybrid organizations, extremism… produce a very complex environment…
• IED attacks infrequent
– Brazil, Chile, China, Mexico
• IED attacks persistent
– Algeria, Colombia, Greece, India, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Yemen
• IED attacks escalating
– Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia…
Future Areas of Focus
1. The signature for an Explosively Formed Projectile (EFP) – devise a sensor suite to recognize the signature and defeat the EFP
2. Tools for understanding dynamic social networks as we target, attack and disrupt them
3. Stand-off detection of Improvised Explosive Devices and their components
4. Better ways to detect other components of Improvised Explosive Devices such as passive infra-red sensors and command wires in urban and rural terrain
5. New sensors for the growing set of Unmanned Aerial Vehiclebased Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) programs