The US DoD launches its new agency dedicated to improvised threats 21407151.

Bentz explained that the Defense Department JIEDDO’s mission to include the improvised threat. “Our job was always to counter the improvised explosive device, and this new mission set asks us to look at the next [improvised explosive devices],” she noted.

JIDA will work in partnership with the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Bentz said.

“The [Defense] Department has given us an increased latitude to go after those innovative networks, because it takes a network to defeat a network,” she told the News.

Betz also said that makers of improvised explosive devices constituted a network that operated coherently and sequentially.

“[We] started noticing there were similar patterns and similar signatures that helped us understand there was a network of materials, people, tactics, techniques and procedures all coming together to build [them],” Bentz said. “It is a threat that’s not going away anytime soon, unfortunately.”

Improvised explosive devices will continue to be a threat to US and coalition forces worldwide, the general acknowledged.