Counter Improvised Explosive Device Capability

What you will learn

To ensure personnel understand the C-IED staff environment with an appreciation of the lexicon and to enable them to describe the technologies that contribute to C-IED and methods of employment. In addition to enable personnel to able to describe and explain the key C-IED activities of, Predict, Pursue, Prevent, Detect, Neutralise, Mitigate, and Exploit.

Core content

Subjects covered will include:

Prepare the Force:

• Describe and explain the C-IED approach in accordance with Joint Doctrine Publication 3-65 (AJP-3.15(A)),
• Understand the development of IED threats based on historical perspective and how these have been countered. Included in this are Adversary Tactics Techniques & Procedures and also the philosophies and principals underpinning the IEDD that counters that threat.

Defeat the Device:

• Understand the technologies involved in C-IED.  This will be in overview of all across all key activity areas, with greater emphasis on Detect, Neutralise, Mitigate and Exploit
• Outline the role of aerial assets for ISTAR and ECM in support of C-IED,
• To provide general C-IED advice to senior and specialist staff in order to contribute to C-IED development in their allocated field.

Attack the Network:

• Explain the importance of an integrated ‘Understand’ function in support of all activities and the importance of Information Management/Information Exchange in its effectiveness at all levels,
• Explain the meaning of Influence Activity and its varied means of application at various levels,
• Perform a basic analysis of an Adversary IED System and identify ways in which it may be countered at various levels and identify what means are available to do so.

Upgrade to a professional qualification

This course will be taught at Masters standard as it is one of the modules that comprise the postgraduate Forensic Modular Masters Programme. Registering for this Short Course for Credit and successfully passing the associated assessment will gain you 10 Cranfield credits. These could then be used to apply for a transfer towards a PgCert/PgDip or MSc in the Forensic Programme should you wish to complete one of these courses within 5 years.

When taken as a Short Course for Credit, 10 credit points can be out towards the Explosives Ordnance Engineering MSc or any of the Master's belonging to the Forensics MSc Programme.

Find out more about short course credit points. 

Who should attend

The Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Capability course is designed to provide military and civilian MOD staff and approved industry personnel with contextual knowledge on the development and use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and the tactics, techniques and procedures used to counter the threat they present.

The course is an introduction to the capability and is taken on a ‘standalone’ basis. As such, it is essential for those employed in a C-IED role or involved in the development and contracting for individual C-IED solutions, particularly project managers and their teams. The course is also relevant for other MOD staff such as Front Line Commands with responsibility for procurement support and sustainability as well as delivery of C-IED capability.

Students must have successfully completed the Introduction to Explosives Engineering course or have relevant experience in order to take this as a Short Course for Credit.
There are no prerequisites if taken as a Standalone Short Course.

Speakers

Mr Stephen Johnson

Michael Harris

Concessions

Concessions are available for Cranfield alumni and multiple bookings from the same organisation, please contact us to discuss.

Accommodation options and prices

This course is non-residential. Delegates will need to make their own arrangements at a nearby hotel.

Location and travel

Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS) is a Cranfield School based at the Ministry of Defence establishment on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire borders.

Shrivenham itself lies in the picturesque Vale of the White Horse, close to the M4 motorway which links London and South Wales. It is 7 miles from Swindon, the nearest town, which lies off the M4 at the hub of Britain’s motorway network.

Bath, Cheltenham, Bristol and Oxford are all within an hour’s drive and London less than two hours away by car.

All visitors must be pre-booked in at reception by the person they are visiting on the campus.

For further location and travel details