JIEDDO Plans Counter-IED 'Challenges'

By Jordana Mishory / February 7, 2012 at 9:48 PM
The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization is inviting industry to participate in a series of “challenges” in hopes of finding new ways to overcome the persistent threat of improvised explosive devices. The series of demonstrations will focus on endurance, reconnaissance, detection and disruption, Steve Cox, the principal deputy to the deputy director of Rapid Acquisition and Technology at JIEDDO, said today at an unmanned vehicle conference in Washington. “I just want to buy your data; that's all I'm asking...

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