TRAINING / IEDs <<
tasked with an explosive investigation unit in Afghanistan to provide support in the mission to mitigate the effects of IEDs. The team tested and provided results of the software concurrently to the combat unit and regular video teleconferences.
“The Combat-SCARE-Afghanistan is a new piece of software that includes the road network, tribal information and a lot of external intelligence, which is the cool stuff I’m not allowed to talk about,” Cadet Nielsen said. “A lot of great things have happened to show that this programme can actually contribute to the fight and save lives by finding these weapons.” The three objectives, Nielsen said, were to create
a programme that is easy to use, produces results and integrates other intelligence sources to improve accuracy. They served as the last of three teams on this project, which launched shortly after class graduation in May. Part of their effort was to integrate additional intelligence data and then distribute the completed software package.
“That’s a major emphasis – and there are some very interested people here and downrange that would like to use this,” added Andrew Oswald.
Major Charles Levine – a maths instructor deployed this summer to get the software into the hands of soldiers and Major Shakarian – said the battlefield
Cadets are trained in the use of robots to find and disarm IEDs
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