Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization

...vision of the others. The findings did not surprise Army Sgt. Major Todd Burnett, the top enlisted man with the Pentagon-based Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, or JIEDDO, which conducted the study. He has made...

In this article: Iraq, Afghanistan, Harvard, and Pentagon

...70 to 80 percent of U.S. and coalition casualties in that country, according to Lt. Gen. Thomas F. Metz, director of the Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization. Metz told military reporters this week that IEDs...

In this article: Afghanistan, U.S., Pentagon, Iraq, and Taliban

...troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Thursday. The GAO's analysis of the Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) found that the group has made...

In this article: Government Accountability Office, The Pentagon, Vic Snyder, Iraq War, and Afghanistan

...for service in Afghanistan - that can spot individuals at a distance and track them on a digital map. Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, the head of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, said the new sensor package, called Vader...

In this article: Afghanistan, U.S., Wired.com, Northrop Grumman, Taliban, Pentagon, Darpa, and Iraq

...quarter of FY09. A prime position on a five-year multiple award contract with a ceiling value of $494 million to provide support to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). Additional contract awards with an...

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...bomb continues to be a sharp-eyed Marine, soldier or sailor. To find out what characteristics good bomb-hunters share, the Pentagon-based Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization studied 800 military personnel, putting them...

In this article: Pentagon, Afghanistan, Iraq, U.S., and Twentynine Palms

...of Staff. They account for "70 to 80" percent of casualties, according to according Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, director of the military's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization. The Pentagon has said that since 2007, the number...

In this article: U.S., Afghanistan, Pentagon, Taliban, E mail, Robert Gates, Kandahar, Antagonism, and New America Foundation

...working for the coalition - were killed in "multiple, complex" roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan. In Iraq, the Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization played a cat-and-mouse game against sophisticated...

In this article: Afghanistan, The Pentagon, U.S., Iraq, Insurgents, and Wired.com

...-- not unlike the AI director in first person shooters such as Valve's Left 4 Dead. Raytheon has supposedly begun talks with the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization to help train warfighters on the simulator. But...

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...-- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) today announced that it has been awarded a prime contract by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) to provide comprehensive technical...

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