The EDA has launched a new Research and Technology programme that will improve Member States’ capabilities in IED detection. Countering Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED) was confirmed as a top priority in the EDA Capability Development Plan (CDP) revision of 2014, and this programme is progresses the practical implementation of this priority. The ...
Some 100 counter-IED experts from NATO member states and partners have attended a demonstration of the French Counter-IED Exploitation Laboratory (CIEL) at NATO HQ. The unique counter-IED analysis laboratory has been designed to provide means of analysing threats in the field thus plugging a capability gap and supporting national forces. “The CIEL ...
The first Train the Trainers Battlefield Vehicle Forensics Course is underway in Sweden. The course, which has 15 participants from Member States, will complete on Friday. Being held at the facilities of Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) in Karlsborg, Sweden, the course takes place under the umbrella of the European Defence ...
More than 1,000 personnel from 21 countries and organisations as well as non-European observers participated in the multinational Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED) exercise Bison Counter 2016 (BC16). The exercise was hosted by the Swedish Armed Forces and the Swedish Göta Engineers Regiment from 15 to 27 August 2016. It was ...