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Inside the Army - 5/18/2009Annual report lists successes

JIEDDO TO PROVIDE EARLY NOTIFICATION BEFORETRANSITIONING INITIATIVES

The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization is promising improved early notification to services and agencies of plans to transfer counter-IED initiatives, according to its latest annual report.In the fiscal year 2008 report, released last month, JIEDDO says that in 2009 it hopes to improve “the Services’ and defenseagencies’ ability to program and fund C-IED initiatives approved for transition.“The JIEDDO Transition Working Group will provide early notification of our intent to transition or transfer C-IED initiatives inorder to increase the time that the Services and Agencies have to develop funding strategies for these initiatives,” the reportcontinues.Additionally, the document says JIEDDO will participate in the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s capability portfoliomanagement process and will make quarterly briefings to the Joint Staff’s Protection Functional Capabilities Board, as well as annualbriefings to the Senior Resource Steering Group and the Joint Requirements Oversight Council.“Periodic updates to the Deputy Secretary of Defense will include the status of C-IED initiatives transitioning or transferring to theServices and agencies,” the report adds.At the same time, the report says, JIEDDO is seeking to address science and technology gaps. According to the document, the C-IEDScience and Technology Master Plan “identifies 15 C-IED technology gaps derived from [combatant commander joint urgentoperational needs statements], feedback presented directly from operational commanders to JIEDDO at semi-annual cross-briefs, andfrom the JIEDDO field teams in Iraq and Afghanistan.”The report says 139 S&T programs, conducted “with the cooperation” of 52 industry partners and 31 government organization,“currently seek to address these gaps.”The document details the initiatives transitioned or transferred to various services in FY-08. Programs are transitioned “when theinitiatives are expected to provide an enduring capability for the joint force,” and they are transferred when they “are not expected toprovide an enduring capability, but will continue to be sustained and used in the current conflict,” the document explains.In FY-08, 12 capabilities were transitioned and four were transferred, the report shows.Transitioned efforts include the Counter Radio-Controlled IED Electronic Warfare (CREW 2) effort to the Army, a convoy planningtool to the Navy and specialized search dogs to the Air Force. JIEDDO transferred the Airborne Reconnaissance Multi-Sensor to theArmy and the P-3C Airborne Survivability Equipment to the Navy, among other items.The report notes that three efforts -- the Trailblazer II, the Rabbit 2.0A and the Improvised Ordnance Disruptor -- were terminated.In FY-08, the document indicates, JIEDDO obligated a total of $4.1 billion and disbursed $3.5 billion. The document says 98percent of the budget authority was provided through supplemental funding, while the remaining 2 percent funded the organization’sstaff and infrastructure.