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Future capabilities must be:

Scalable – Affordable – Adaptable – Expeditionary – Domestic Application – Whole-of-government Approach

Homemade explosives The ability to locate, avoid, and neutralize IEDs containing non-standard explosives compounds

Information integration and fusion The ability to integrate, visualize, and analyze information and intelligence to increase situational awareness for C-IED/counter-threat network planning and operations

Weapons Technical Intelligence The ability to collect and exploit information from individuals, IEDs and components to understand threat networks, IEDs, and components

Pre-detonation The ability to cause IEDs to trigger at the time and place of the warfighter’s choosing

Counter-threat network The ability to proactively find and fix IED builders, suppliers, financiers, and distributors

Detection The ability to determine the location of emplaced IEDs and IED components

Counter-device The ability to neutralize IEDs before detonation or mitigate the effects following detonation

Identify threat network activities Identify threat network financiers and finance activities Identify targetable threat C4ISR vulnerabilities Rapidly analyze emerging operational environments Rapidly deploy analysis/fusion teams and technology Track IED components Gain understanding of social/cultural aspects of counter insurgency

Counter-threat Network Automated pattern recognition technologies which identify hostile intent/ behavior Improved processing and trend recognition of threat finance data Data surveillance for analytical trending, automated, and integrated Better data correlation to improve processing time Expeditionary analytic fusion systems and personnel with reachback capability Identify IED component supply chains in individual areas of operation/interest Identify best practices for training culture specific skills

Capture, catalog, and identify IED and component signatures Detect IEDs from a safe standoff distance Detect IEDs while dismounted Detect IEDs while mounted Detect IEDs from airborne platform

Improve detector sensitivity and improve false alarm rate Detect waterborne IEDs (WBIED)

Detection Detection of IED component observables to allow device detection and trace High reliability, low false alarm, detection of lowmetallic devices at safe distances Integrated detectors, reducedsize and weight of systems, handheld, wearable IED detection at convoy speeds; mutually supporting detection devices on multiple vehicles Integration with airborne intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) systems; semiautonomous airborne systems Systems capable of detecting explosive compounds in trace amounts Standoff surface and underwater waterborne IED detection

Disable IED delivery systems in multiple environments Mitigate effects of IED attacks on dismounts and mounted Neutralize WBIEDs

Counter Device Lethal/nonlethal counterWBIED/VBIED/SVBIED tech with hazardousdud designation ability Lighter, more effective personnel armor and vehicle protection Counterswimmer, counterswarm, hullemplaced IEDs, in varying water operational environments

Improve sensor capabilities to detect HME Disrupt supply chains Render HME precursors unsuitable/less detonable

Homemade Explosives Higher sensor sensitivity, distributed systems Tagging, tracking, and locating precursor materials Fertilizer modification during production; mixing with less-detonable materials

Predetonate IEDs while dismounted Predetonate IEDs while mounted Predetonate from airborne platform Predetonate surface, deeply buried, and underwater IEDs Integrate predetonation with other systems Reliable predetonation, with minimal collateral damage

Pre-detonation Lightweight, handemployed, predetonation systems Mutually supporting predetonation devices not on the same vehicle; predetonation at convoy speeds Semiautonomous airborne systems Kinetic or nonkinetic predetonation systems Modular family of predetonation systems able to be integrated with detection systems Precisiontargeted predetonation systems with ability to designate hazardousduds for clearing

Computerbased decision aids for command and control systems

Fusion of databases across the CIED enterprise Provide multidimensional data visualization Provide robust data connectivity and highspeed computing Rapidly disseminate data to support decision making Seamlessly share Information among partners

Info Integration & Fusion Comprehensive and uptodate database of counterIED tactics, techniques, and procedures, and lessons learned Tagging, sorting, discovery, and visualization of knowledge in large data sets Improved geospatiallyrendered data visualization; multidimensional Highspeed data correlation/computing and technologies to support bandwidthconstrained users Mobile/small formfactor devices for analytical product reception Improved data processing/ingestion — semantic discovery, xdomain, xnetwork — data sense making

Collect biometric data from a standoff position Rapidly collect and analyze biometric data Rapidly collect and analyze forensic data Reliably fuse and transfer WTI data

Weapons Technical Intelligence Technologies allowing collection of materials from non-cooperative subjects and fix/match identity Mobile biometrics data collection/analysis; realtime signature match Automated, userfriendly, durable, mobile forensics analysis suite Integration of all technologies that collect, submit, and analyze WTI data

OPERATIONAL NEEDSR&D GAPS CRITICAL ENABLERS