DOD: $20M needed to combat critical threat of ISIL turning drones into IEDs

By Jordana Mishory / July 6, 2016 at 5:41 PM

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As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant begins to turn commercial drones into improvised explosive devices, the Pentagon wants congressional approval to move $20 million to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund to help guard against this "critical" and "unanticipated" capability gap. A June 30 reprogramming request sent to lawmakers by Defense Department Comptroller Mike McCord seeks to move $20 million to the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency to help find and defeat these drones that could either...

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DOD: $20M needed to combat critical threat of ISIL turning drones into IEDs

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