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IED Electronics
Course Description
This course covers the design, construction and exploitation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and reveals why modern electronics offer the terrorist a huge range of options for device design and construction. Assuming no previous knowledge of electronics, this course provides practical knowledge of devices such as collapsing circuits (traditional and solid state), modification of commercial technologies for use in IEDs and remote-controlled IEDs (RCIEDs), radio frequency (RF) circuits and coding systems, including dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF). The course begins with an outline of electrical theory and Ohm’s law followed by an introduction to a wide variety of electronic components and the ways in which they are employed in currently fielded terrorist IED circuits. Emphasis is placed on the characteristics of electronic components and circuits that make them attractive to the terrorist and those that cause training devices to fail, The minimum possible theory is presented with most of the work being practical, hands on, circuit building. This course is accredited by the American Public University System (APUS) and the American Military University (AMU) for 3 semester hours as well as approved by the state of Arizona for 35 hours police officer standards and training (POST).
Course Content
- Basic electrical theory: conduction and insulation
- Linear components: resistors, capacitors, switches, batteries, relays
- Non-linear components: diodes, metal-oxide semi-conductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), bipolar transistors, single-channel radios (SCRs)
- Timers, solid state IED circuits, modified commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) items, circuit speed
- Integrated circuits
- RCIEDs, broadband RF circuits, private mobile radios (PMRs)
Maximum Class Size
16
Course Duration
5 days
Participant Requirements
Participants must be one of the following:
- Active Bomb Squad member
- Military EOD Technician
- Intelligence analyst
- Federal, state or local government employees working in the counter-IED field
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IED Awareness
Course Description
Classroom based, this course starts by defining the IED and underlining the IED threat in respect developing a proactive IED search program germane to participants/organizations daily environment. Participants are exposed to IED components and effects. Realistic IED training aids are used throughout this course to enhance the learning experience. Course includes brief historical background on terrorist threats and trends and how soft targets may be "hardened." Participants are divided into search teams and taken through a series of instructor-led scenarios to learn area, vehicle, and personnel search techniques. We can modify duration of course to meet the clients’ requirements.
Course Content
- IED recognition: components and effects
- Current tends and threats: prevention planning
- Surveillance detection: the bad guys are watching you
- Hardening soft targets: vulnerability considerations
- Case history discussion: domestic and/or international
- IED search techniques
- Interior
- Exterior
- Vehicle
- Personnel
- Organizational protocols: norms and best practices
Maximum Class Size
16
Course Duration
5 days
Participant Requirements
Participants must be one of the following:
- Corporate security professional
- State, local, or military responder
- Active or reserve military
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IED Electronics Training for EODs
Course Description
Predominantly classroom based, this course starts with threat assessment table-top exercises and discussion of, techniques required to effectively deal with a range of current terrorist devices. Instruction includes basic electronic principles, and participants practice these principles by building a number of currently employed IED circuits. All students receive a detailed work book, multimeter, wire attack kit and an electronics component kit, so that they can practice skills learned in the course after it's over. This course provides practical knowledge of devices such as collapsing circuits (traditional and solid state) and the diagnostic procedures used on them.
Course Content
- Basic electronic theory
- Component recognition
- Device construction techniques
- Advanced X-ray techniques and safety
- Multimeter use
- Circuit and wire diagnostics
Maximum Class Size
16
Course Duration
5 days
Participant Requirements
- Active duty military EOD Technician