http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/299436 Military turns to technology to fight deadly roadside bombs Allocates $5 million to deal with deadly threat
Feb 01, 2008 04:30 AM Allan Woods Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA-The military has set aside $5 million to commission new technologies to help locate roadside bombs in Afghanistan. The forces are also in the market for two "neutralization vehicles" that can detect and dismantle landmines to clear the way for soldiers. The "urgent" search for new methods to combat the scourge of improvised explosive devices comes after a month in which the Taliban's weapon of choice has killed four Canadian soldiers in Kandahar province. Since 2005, when the Canadian Forces were sent to southern Afghanistan, there have been 34 successful attacks by roadside bombs. Twenty-eight soldiers have been killed and 72 have been wounded, according to statistics published on the Canadian American Strategic Review website. The search for new ways to detect hidden explosives has been put on a fast track so that proposals from both industry and academia will be given the green light by mid-April. Defence Research Development Canada, the new-technology wing of the Canadian Forces, is specifically seeking new ways to predict the threat of bombs through intelligence gathering, behavioural analysis and "psychological operations." A second government tender, worth $100,000, is seeking a company to build two miniature, unmanned vehicles that can explode detected roadside bombs, among other tasks. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
