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(U//FOUO) Analysts Gather for Quarterly Summit on Defeating IEDs
FROM:
Director, NSA IED Coordination Cell (ST)
Run Date: 07/24/2006
(U//FOUO) US, Allies work on the Improvised Explosive Device problem...
(U//FOUO) Intelligence analysts and engineers representing a wide range of U.S. Government
and allied nation agencies attended the Joint IED Defeat Organization's (JIEDDO) Worldwide
Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) Analyst Summit at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida
from 23-25 May. This second summit continued work on the goals of the first IED summit. (See
the 28 April 2006 SIDtoday article for an account of the first session.)
(U//FOUO) Building on the previous session, JIEDDO established five topic areas for break-out
groups:
information sharing/information architecture
intelligence campaign plan
science and technology
targeting (kinetic and non-kinetic) bomb-maker networks
information operations
(C) Accomplishments of the second IED summit included:
a list of all known IED discussion fora, including VTCs, recurring conferences,
InfoWorkSpace collaborations, etc. JIEDDO will circulate this list to all participants to
enhance common understanding of the IED problem set;
a discussion of the (200+!) worldwide IED data repositories and on-line resources, and
plans to develop a single, comprehensive IED database;
an exhaustive discussion of the JIEDDO Intelligence Campaign Plan (ICP), including
necessary additions. (The revised ICP will be issued by Sept 2006);
a general recognition that IED reporting and research lanes in the road are not clear,
which leads to confusion and duplication of effort. JIEDDO took an action to address this
issue.
(U//FOUO) NSA continues to play a key role in the Counter-IED effort through a number of
critical initiatives. Watch SID today for further Counter-IED developments.
(U//FOUO) See the IED information center webpage for more on the NSA IED effort and JIEDDO.
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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