SA and its subcontractors received an award from the Office of Naval Research to analyze the Global IED problem.
Strategic Analysis, Inc. (SA) received an award from the Office of Naval Research to analyze the Global IED problem and to develop a process for detecting, defeating and destroying Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). IEDs have been used in conflicts throughout history. Their ease of disguise, design, and detonation make them attractive for many applications against personnel, vehicles, and buildings. In Iraq, the Iraqi military has been proactive in the use and development of land mines and IEDs over the course of the last four decades, thus an ample supply of fabricated munitions, mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) exists to construct IEDs.
During the present Iraq conflict, the technical complexities of attacks have increased concomitantly with the frequency. The reasons are simple: IEDs are difficult to detect and relatively easy to construct, and commercial technologies have allowed insurgent groups a wide range of remote detonation options.
The team's experts in the areas of explosives detection, remote detonation of explosives, munitions and fuzing, blast and fragment effects of munitions, electronics, security, operations, cultural and neurological behavior, and strategic investments will be incorporated into the study to look at the IED problem from broad and diverse perspectives.
