As we continue to address the improvised explosive device threats of today, we must simultaneously prepare for tomorrow's counter-IED and counter-threat network effort by institutionalizing the knowledge, capabilities, and experience we have amassed during the last decade. Building upon hard-earned lessons learned, this Counter-IED Strategic Plan extends the focus beyond current operations and establishes an azimuth for the development of future and enduring counter-IED capabilities.

The IED is the weapon of choice for the overlapping consortium of networks operating along the entire threat continuum – criminal, insurgent, and terrorist alike. Threat networks use IEDs because they are cheap, readily available, easy to construct, lethal, and effective. The IED is a weapon used strategically to cause casualties, create the perception of insecurity, and influence national will. This threat is complex and transnational in nature, representing layers of interdependent, inter-connected global threat networks, and support systems.

Goal 1: Rapidly identify, validate, and prioritize immediate and future C-IED requirements.

Goal 2: Provide operations and intelligence fusion, analysis, training, and sensitive activity support.

Goal 3: Rapidly seek, develop, and acquire C-IED solutions.

Goal 4: Lead DoD C-IED training and training capability development.

Goal 5: Build a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and international C-IED community of action.

• Rapid acquisition and fielding
• Operations-intelligence-information fusion and analysis
• Training
• Weapons technical intelligence
• Whole-of-goverment approach