EOD / IED & Countermine Symposium

EOD/IED & Countermine Symposium

Maintaining EOD, IED & Countermine Capabilities Force Structure within a New Environment
July 24 – 25, 2013: Alexandria, VA

Over the past ten years, continuous IED combat operations have enhanced available technology and training to adapt to the new evolution of threats. Response tactics have also improved to achieve mission success. However, in the persistent conflicts to come for generations IEDs will be the weapon of choice, both domestically and in future contingency operations.

DSI’s EOD/IED & Countermine Symposium was created to bridge the gaps and assess policies, plans, programs priorities between industry and the EOD/IED/Countermine military community. 

Participant Offices Will Include:

JIEDDO
Expeditionary Warfare 
Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal
IED Exercise Planning 
Combating WMD
CIED/EOD - Combating Terrorism Technical Support

2013 Symposium topic areas of discussion will include:

*Containing the spread of IEDs as a global weapon of choice for violent extremists

*Fostering whole-of-government approach to the IED threat

*Improving guidance on EOD reporting and messaging

*Ensuring IEDs too costly to produce and too risky to employ by: - Attacking networks that emplace IEDs - Training our forces to protect themselves

*Advancing the ability to detect and neutralize improvised or homemade explosives (HME)

*Next generation robotics, bomb suits, and radiographic systems

*Equipment and procedures to fight the IED threat through communications, vehicles, exploitation techniques, ECM, kinetic tools

*Next-Gen Standoff explosives detection capabilities

*Lightweight tools and explosives for dismounted operations