JT Service Expl Ord Disp System

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) Project (0377) provides funding for the detailed design, development, risk mitigation, issue resolution, integrations, test, test equipment, simulations and post-deployment improvements of specialized equipment, tools and assessment of accessories that expand range of military operations required to support DoD's only Joint Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) programs. EOD exclusively executes world-wide missions for detection/location, identification, render-safe, recovery, field and laboratory evaluation, and disposal of hazards and unexploded ordnance (UXO) that is a threat to military operations, installations, personnel, or material. UXO includes foreign and domestic, both conventional and non-conventional, including Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs); hazards includes fuels weapons and weapons of mass destruction devices using radiological and biological means with or without explosives. The responsibility is assigned to the Navy as single service manager, by Department of Defense Directive 5160.62 of 3 June 2011, for management of the Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal Research and Development Program. EOD programs are designed to reduce the EOD operator's exposure to explosive hazards or limit the risk to an acceptable level. EOD operations range from hand entry of explosive devices by EOD technicians to robotic actions and sensing capabilities that provide a safe distance of the explosive hazard at a greatly reduced cost to trained and experienced EOD operators.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0377_0603654N_4_1319_PB_2018

Tags

Readers

• Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs