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Pentagon’s Anti-WMD Agency Changes Name & Joins DTRA

The Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency has joined the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and rebranded to the name of Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization in accordance with the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. DTRA said

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by Scott Nicholas
October 3, 2016
DoD/News
Rear Adm. Brian Brakke Takes Helm of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command

Rear Adm. Brian Brakke, former deputy director of operations and intelligence integration at the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, has assumed a new role as head of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. The U.S. Navy

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by Ramona Adams
August 18, 2016
DoD/News
Report: Defense Threat Reduction Agency to Absorb JIDA By Sept. 30

The Defense Department will integrate the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency into the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to comply with a provision in the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, Defense News reported Tuesday. Jen Judson writes the law

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by Mary-Louise Hoffman
February 3, 2016
Government Technology/News
JIDA Aims to Detect Suicide Bombers Through New System

The Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency has funded the development of a platform that works to detect improvised explosive devices, the Army website reported Sunday. C. Todd Lopez writes the Standoff Suicide Bomb Detection

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by Jane Edwards
December 1, 2015
DoD/News
Maj. Gen. Julie Bentz: JIDA Leverages ‘Community of Action’ to Combat Adaptive Threats

The renamed Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency is adopting a “community of action approach” to counter adaptive threats, C4ISR & Networks reported Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Julie Bentz, acting director of JIDA, told the

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by Jane Edwards
August 19, 2015
DoD/News
Pentagon Renames JIEDDO as Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency; Lt. Gen. John D. Johnson Comments

The Defense Department has replaced the name of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization to reflect the group’s new mission against improvised weapons and other threats. The renamed Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency

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by Jane Edwards
July 13, 2015
Civilian/News
Frank Kendall: DoD AT&L to Support JIEDDO’s Rapid Acquisition Needs

Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall has outlined the continued work of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization to support soldiers as JIEDDO transitions to the Pentagon’s office of acquisition, technology and logistics, DoD

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by Anna Forrester
July 2, 2015
DoD/News
US Army Engineers Develop Guide, Training Course to Expedite Analysis of IED-Caused Craters; Jay Ehrgott Comments

Researchers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center have created a guide and a training course designed to help frontline servicemen speed up the analysis of craters caused by improvised

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by Jane Edwards
May 27, 2015
DoD/News
Lt. Gen. John Johnson: JIEDDO Reorganizes, Will Function as Combat Support Agency

Army Lt. Gen. John Johnson, director at the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, has said JIEDDO has been reorganized as a combat support agency under the supervision of the defense undersecretary for

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by Mary-Louise Hoffman
April 6, 2015
DoD/News
Report: Pentagon Mulls Future of IED Organization

The Defense Department has started to weigh its options on the future of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, Defense News reported Monday. Marcus Weisgerber and Joe Gould write the move

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July 16, 2013
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