A few days ago Lt. Gen. Tom Metz, DoD’s counter-IED chief, has reported the highest level of IED attacks against NATO troops in Afghanistan in four years, with 200 IED incidents in April – June 2008:
120 IED’s exploded
40 explosions resulted in casualties
80 IED’s had been detected and cleared by NATO forces
Insurgents [...]
Small companies with innovative counter-IED technologies can become prime acquisition targets in a fast growing and technology focused counter-IED market. Promising technologies in standoff threat detection areas, as well as innovations in the broader sectors of “Fighting the Network” are forecast to be of most interest. According to Homeland Security Research Corp. (HSRC) research, [...]
There are currently about 90 known ways to detonate an IED, and growing. As counter IED technologies evolve, so do IED detonation techniques, creating a new kind of arms race. Both sides are fast learners and invest substantial resources in outwitting the opponent. According to Homeland Security Research Corp.’s (HSRC) research, 2008-2012 Global Counter-IED [...]
Countering the growing IED threat all over the world is rapidly changing the outlay picture of this emerging market, which is now predominantly American. In fact, the international (other than U.S.) counter-IED outlay is forecast to grow faster than the U.S. over the 2008-2012 period, and even exceed it by 2013. According to [...]
With a 2007-2012 CAGR of 15.7%, the standoff threat detection systems market is forecasted to be one of the fastest growing counter-IED markets. According to a recent research report by Homeland Security Research Corp. (HSRC), 2008-2012 Global Counter-IED Markets and Technologies Forecast, novel approaches to detecting and in some cases defeating threats from buried [...]
