For several years, extremists have been using IEDs to weaken the government/civil agencies and military forces in guarding national security. In the recent years, threats of IEDs have increased significantly, with various reports citing the occurrence of explosive events worldwide. 

We witnessed the attack of IEDs closing to home, targeted at crowded places, injuring civilians and causing fatalities. These threats were intended to weaken political movement, create significant economic aftershocks, and crippling prominent infrastructure, to slow down the aftermath recovery from such attacks. 

The government and militaries recognise this threat and are constantly reviewing their strategies to provide effective layers of security to effectively mitigate or even neutralize such attacks, should they occur. This task has increased in complexity, unfortunately, as the world settled into the era of technology. A report contributed by ASPI 2009 reflects that due to increasing internet users worldwide, militants are using this as a tool to promote extremist ideology and to radicalise potential supporters.

We recognise some loopholes in national security planning that terrorists are capitalising on, but we also witnessed numerous foiled attempt in activating IEDs, arrests of extremists who masterminded the IED attacks, clamping  down of terrorists’ activities, and also increasing religious leaders coming forward, supporting the civil agencies by rectifying the misinterpretation of religion ideologies.

In view of the need for regional collaborations to clamp down on extremists’ activities on IEDs, this event serves as a platform for all militaries and civil agencies to gather and discuss on the best practices used in countering IEDs, lessons learnt from c-ied in battlefield, potential solutions to mitigate IED attacks on civilians, and new development of c-ieds today.

· The Dreaded Chimera: countering the CBRN IED
· New development in IEDs countermeasures technologies
· Attacking the IEDs networks
· Operational challenges in IED ambush missions
· Achieving effective C-IED collaboration between military and civilians
· Future challenges in C-IEDs
· Vulnerabilities assessment of major security event planning
· IED blast and simulation
· Case study on London July 2005 bombing
· Case study on Operation Overt
· And many more!

“Good effort being the first time that such a conference is organised in Singapore. Kudos!”
Gerard Lee, EOD, Ministry of Defence

“Good insights and knowledge shared by the speakers. Good expertise and topics shared. The conference certainly provides a good perspective to Singapore’s security domain by shortening our learning curves and giving us lessons from actual, realistic events happening around us.”
Tan Wei Liang, Combat Officer, Singapore Armed Forces

“Conference was fantastically organised.”
Olivia Chiu, Intelligence Planner, United States Pacific Command

For more information about the event, please contact +65 6732 0522 or email selvy@k2b.com.sg