Lt. Gen. Michael L. Oates, Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization
On a recent DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable, we interviewed U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael L. Oates, Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).
Oates discussed JIEDDO’s current efforts to rapidly provide comprehensive counter-IED support to deployed warfighters and its direct support of the surge in Afghanistan. He also discussed JIEDDO’s coordination with the Pentagon’s senior integrators; its unique role as a risk-tolerant organization; its whole-of-government approach and its work with international partners; its approach to counter-IED training methodology and integration; its development of detection technologies, airborne sensors; its application of information fusion to disrupt threat networks employing the IED; and current challenges across its mission areas.
LISTEN to the interview
To view the transcript, click here.
Read the Defense.gov story: General Leads Efforts Against IEDs
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