JIEDDO turns its attention to the sea
Killer Apps focuses a lot on cyber, UAVs, advanced spy gear and other high-tech signatures of modern warfare, but IEDs have so far this century been as much a hallmark of warfare as drones. Now, as the Pentagon shifts its focus toward combat in the world’s busiest sea lanes, it’s looking to protect itself from ...
Killer Apps focuses a lot on cyber, UAVs, advanced spy gear and other high-tech signatures of modern warfare, but IEDs have so far this century been as much a hallmark of warfare as drones. Now, as the Pentagon shifts its focus toward combat in the world's busiest sea lanes, it's looking to protect itself from water-borne IEDs.
Killer Apps focuses a lot on cyber, UAVs, advanced spy gear and other high-tech signatures of modern warfare, but IEDs have so far this century been as much a hallmark of warfare as drones. Now, as the Pentagon shifts its focus toward combat in the world’s busiest sea lanes, it’s looking to protect itself from water-borne IEDs.
Here’s a little of what FP’s Gordon Lubold had to say about the project (that has a motto of "remember the Cole") in his Situation Report email this morning.
The particulars of the technologies funded by the three new contracts are largely classified and get wonky in a hurry. The Mobile Cueing with In-Volume and Bottom Search (MCIBS), the Swimmer Threat Identification System (STID), and the Sensor-Based Stabilized Remotely Operated Vehicle Waterborne-IED Identification and Neutralization (SSR-WIN) systems are all in accelerated development and might see the water within 12 months.
They are funded to the tune of about $20 million total by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, or JIEDDO, which until now has been largely focused on land-based threats posed by IEDs and other devices.
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John Reed is a former national security reporter for Foreign Policy.
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