The Pentagon will renew its efforts in detecting and defeating IEDs, according to the new Director of Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security, Jay Cohen.  At a recent National Defense Industrial Association meeting he said “We’re going to get back in the IED business.  I don’t have enough money yet, but I will.”

Cohen, a retired Navy Real Admiral and past head of the Office of Naval Research said that it is “only a matter of time” before the tactics used in madrid and London train and subway mobs are used in the US.

Cohen expects that about half of his $800M annual budget will be directed to the threat of IEDs of all sorts (explosive, chemical and biological).  He says “this is a subject that can keep you awake at night, but the good news is we’ve got the world’s leading technology here [and] we’re making enormous, tangible progress in this area.

BTD is a new blog that I am creating to discuss the realities and scientific direction associated with detecting bombs.  These may be IEDs, carbombs, nuclear weapons, etc.

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Martin Tibbitts