JUSTIFICATION OF FY 2008GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR (GWOT) AMENDMENT

JOINT IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE DEFEAT FUND

FY 2008

GWOT Request

LINE OF OPERATION 3: TRAIN THE FORCE 334,000 603,000

Part I — Purpose and Scope

The best asset on the battlefield is a well-led, well-trained, situationally-aware Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine. The JIEDDO supports the Services’ requirements to provide demanding individual and collective training on IED-Defeat operationsin order to prepare units prior to and during deployment for operations where the IED environment remains intense and fluid.

Part II — Justification of Funds Required

The $269,000,000 requested in this Global War On Terror (GWOT) amendment is to support the Services’ acceleration of C-IED Home Station Lane Training.

All four services requirecounter-IED Home Station Training Lanes to be provided at 30 locations. FY08 cost is $269M.

Requested funding for FY 2008 accomplishes twokey tasks: 1) expands C-IED training capabilities to support all Service individual and basic collective training venues prior to advanced collective (unit) training exercises at CombatTrainingCenter (CTCs) in preparation for deployment to theaterand 2) supplements additional resourcing of critical C-IED training support equipment across the same service venues.

Requirements fall into four categories - infrastructure, personnel, surrogate training vehicles, and training aids. Infrastructure includes mock- villages, jersey barriers, surrogate traffic circles, surrogate over passes, paved and unpaved road trail networks, range instrumentation and after action review capabilities. Infrastructure costs are estimated at $199 million. Personnel required to support training at each location include two red team members, one Counter-IED (CIED) Exploitation Cell (CEXC) advisor trainer, one CIED robot trainer advisor, one CREW trainer advisor, one Route Clearance Team (RCT) trainer, One EOD trainer advisor, one intel analyst trainer, and 30 Civilians-On-the-Battlefield (COB) role players. Personnel costs are estimated at $24 million. Surrogate training vehicles at each location include one surrogate Buffalo, one surrogate JERRV, one surrogate RG-31 or RG-33, one surrogate Husky, four visually modified (VISMOD) surrogate UA HMMWVs and one set of HMMWV remote controls. Surrogate training vehicles are estimated to cost $21 million. Training Aids at each location include 10 Duke or Chameleon surrogate jammers, 120 TIED II kits, 120 IEDSS or SCOPIS, 120 vehicle and individual MILES kits, one MARBOT robot, one BOMBOT robot, one PACBOT robot, one Talon robot, one man transportable robot, four escalation of force (EOF) kits, four site exploitation kits, four Biometric Automate Tool Sets (BATS), one BATS server, and one surrogate jamming effectiveness box. The training aids cost for this requirement is $25 million.

Part III — Program Descriptions

Counter-IED Home Station LaneTraining: This initiativeprovides assistance to the Services in the development and sustainmentof basicC-IED training capabilities at the camp, post, and station level. Its focus is on collective (unit) training. Counter-IED home station training lanes offer units the ability to become proficient in C-IED tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) before rotating through CTCs and deployment to theater.