The technological gap between the United States and its rivals gets smaller every year. The U.S. hopes to widen this gap by harnessing the power of Silicon Valley to create the next generation of intelligent war machines.

Improvised Explosive Devices, or IEDs, are a core component of the insurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2006 there were more than 2,500 IED attacks each month — the leading cause of casualties for U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians. To this day, IEDs continue to pose the greatest of threats to the aims and overall military strategy of the United States and its allies.

The soldiers charged with locating and disarming IEDs belong to units called EOD: Explosive Ordinance Disposals. EOD teams are integral in the effort to suppress these kinds of destructive attacks in Iraq and... Leer Más