University of South Florida invention helps U.S. military counter deadly improvised explosive devices

It looks like a piece of plastic. But once installed, it can be the key to ensuring military equipment designed to prevent improvised explosive devices from detonating does work as intended. Members of the military across the world wear powerful Read More …

JCREW Counter IED Program Achieves Full Operational Capability

WASHINGTON – The Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) announced that the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (JCREW) Increment One Block One (I1B1) program has achieved full operational capability (FOC) ahead of Read More …

US approves counter-IED tech sale to Australia

The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Australia of up to eight hundred fifty (850) Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare Increment 1 Block 1 (JCREW I1B1) Systems and related equipment. Read More …

Electronic Weapons: JCREW Survives Major Upgrade

The U.S. has finally completed a 2011 effort to upgrade the JCREW (Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare) jammers used to disable IEDs (improvised explosive devices) detonated wirelessly. Another update was underway but was delayed six years because, Read More …