Preparing himself for the real ideally we would defeat the chal- tween organized crime and IED net-
deal, a soldier (above) examines lenge.” But less than one-third of works. Turning this to its advantage,
an IED training device. A group the 2008 JIEDDO budget is slated JIEDDO funded the LEP program,
tours the mine-resistant ambush- to support programs and personnel which places former law-enforce-
protected (MRAP) vehicle facility that attack the network. ment experts from agencies such as
in Charleston, S.C. (facing page). the FBI, the ATF, and the DEA at the
MRAP vehicles are widely used in Predict, prevent, detect brigade level to take down criminal
Iraq and Afghanistan. In attacking the network, JIEDDO networks. U.S. forces have been able
uses integrated intelligence to predict to target the money trails, supply
es: As a permanent entity, he explains, specifi c enemy IED-focused opera- lines, and techno-brains behind the
JIEDDO can better obtain necessary tions directed against U.S. interests. It bomb builders. Because of its suc-
funding for its programs and staff prevents the emplacement of IEDs by cess, the LEP program soon will ex-
some long-vacant positions. The offensively targeting or eliminating tend down to the battalion level.
downside: Keeping his organization key enemy personnel, infrastructure,
cutting-edge and protecting it from and the like and works to destroy Dancing with the device
the complacency that befalls many in- bomb makers and their networks. Defeating the device consists of fi nd-
side — or outside — the Pentagon. JIEDDO detects activities that identi- ing it, defeating the IED at the point
Though Metz agrees with JIED- fy hostile IED personnel and devices. of attack, and protecting the force.
DO’s three-pronged approach, he One of the most successful attack- IEDs are, as the name suggests, im-
would like nothing more than to the-network programs has been the provised. According to JIEDDO, the
completely defeat the network. “If law-enforcement professional (LEP) IED is a “cheap, stand-off precision
we can defeat the network of the program. In studying the IED chain, targeting system that often provides
human element behind the IED, JIEDDO has found similarities be- attackers with complete anonymity.”
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