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investment in WTI since 2008, provid- Funded by JIEDDO and operated by (CALL), Iraq’s Combined Joint Task
ing over $100 million for the current the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJF- Force (CJTF) Troy and Afghanistan’s
fiscal year under the Attack the Net- COM), KnIFE connects data from mul- CJTF Paladin.
work line of operation. This investment tiple agencies and organizations such These tactical insights drawn from
includes funding for the forward-based as JIEDDO with IED-related informa- JIEDDO personnel returning from the-
CEXC labs and support of the FBI’s TE- tion from units in-theater. This results ater to an emphasis on understanding
DAC database. in best practices that are informed not current enemy IED technical capabili-
JIEDDO has also worked to make only from an institutional level, but rein- ties, KnIFE enables JIEDDO to push
its capabilities, including capability de- forced by real-world experience. critical information to warfighters as the
velopments and WTI, available to the From tips on disrupting insurgent organization receives it.
largest cross-section of Soldiers, Sailors, IED networks to identifying unexploded JIEDDO: https://www.jieddo.dod.mil
Airmen and Marines. Any military, gov- ordnance, KnIFE’s collection of counter-
KNIFE: https://knife.jfcom.mil
ernment or contractor EOD expert with IED lessons learned, consolidates the lat-
a Common Access Card (CAC) can log est information from the Marine Corps Michael Coderre is a writer with the Joint
into the Knowledge & Information Fu- Center for Lessons Learned (MCCLL), IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).
sion Exchange (KnIFE). the Center for Army Lessons Learned
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