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CDR Tom Green PMS-EOD Mine Warfare Association Spring Meeting May 2003

US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal EOD Forces in Support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM The Acquisition Perspective. CDR Tom Green PMS-EOD Mine Warfare Association Spring Meeting May 2003. BG/ATG EMBARKED EOD DETS. BG/ATG EMBARKED EOD DETS.

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CDR Tom Green PMS-EOD Mine Warfare Association Spring Meeting May 2003

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  1. US Navy Explosive Ordnance DisposalEOD Forces in Support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and Operation IRAQI FREEDOMThe Acquisition Perspective CDR Tom Green PMS-EOD Mine Warfare Association Spring Meeting May 2003

  2. BG/ATG EMBARKED EOD DETS BG/ATG EMBARKED EOD DETS SUMMARY OF EOD FORCESGlobally Dispersed Detachments Whidbey 2 ASD EODMU 6 Charleston 4 EOD MCM EODMU 5 Sasebo, Japan 1 EOD MCM Norfolk 1 ASD BG/ATG EMBARKED EOD DETS Sigonella 1 ASD EODMU 8 Bahrain 1 EOD MCM Charleston 1 ASD EODMU 3 Coronado 5 EOD MCM BG/ATG EMBARKED EOD DETS EODMU 6 Ingleside, TX 2 EOD MCM S.D. 1 ASD BG/ATG EMBARKED EOD DETS NSCT-1 2 MMS MCM 1 VSW MCM VSW MMS Platoon Diver Platoon UUV Platoon EODMU 8 Sigonella 2 EOD MCM EODMU 5 Guam 1 EOD MCM Dedicated EOD MCM DETs (Enhanced MCM Capabilities) Dedicated MMS/VSW DETs (Specialized MCM Capabilities) Dedicated Area Search DETs (Limited MCM Capabilities) Afloat EOD DETs (Partial MCM Capabilities) Shore Support EOD DETs (Limited MCM Capabilities) CHOKEPOINTS

  3. EOD FORCES DEPLOYED • Primary Missions: • Mine Countermeasures (NSCT ONE, EODMU 2, 3, 6, 8) • Force Protection/Anti-Terrorism(EODMU 3, EODMU 7) • UXO Operations Ashore (EODMU 2, 6, 8) • Shipboard DETs (CVBG/ARG) • Areas Deployed: • Afghanistan • Umm Qasr • Bahrain • Rumaila Oil Fields

  4. BACKGROUNDEOD Mission ELIMINATE THE HAZARDS FROM UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE (UXO) WHICH JEOPARDIZE OPERATIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY EOD FUNCTIONS DETECT/LOCATE ACCESS IDENTIFY RENDER SAFE RECOVER/EXPLOIT DISPOSE • EOD THREAT AREAS • CONVENTIONAL ORDNANCE: • SURFACE/AIR • UNDERWATER • CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL • NUCLEAR • UNCONVENTIONAL DEVICES: • IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES • WMD (CHEM/BIO/NUCLEAR)

  5. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL(PMS-EOD) • PMS-EOD Provides Life Cycle Management of: • Joint Service EOD Programs • Underwater EOD Programs • Marine Mammal Programs • Very Shallow Water MCM Programs • Responsibilities include Budgeting, Development, In-service Engineering, and Operation and Maintenance Support • The EOD Mission Requires Specialized Systems and Equipment for: • Exploration and Reconnaissance MCM • Low Visible Operations • Low Signature (Magnetic and Acoustic) • Operation in Harsh Environments • Small, Mobile Deployed EOD Forces

  6. TODAY’S BRIEF • Will focus on a few PMS-EOD acquisition programs that have been deployed ISO recent operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East • Some of these systems deployed in “operational prototype” modes • Only possible due to active engagement of users and support from labs during the prototype development stages • Looking forward to hot wash-up and lessons learned to determine how we can do better Bottom line:EOD Forces have a “tool bag” approach to their missions. Our job is to keep the tool bag relevant and supported.

  7. The EOD Ashore UXO “Toolbag”Tactical Integration of Small UGVs with EOD Forces • Rapid UXO Clearance • Reduce Risk to EOD Technician • Stand-of Disruption • Remote Identification/Inspection • Multiple UXO Clearance Ops

  8. DEPLOYED Operation ENDURING FREEDOM JOINT SERVICE EODROBOTIC PROGRAMSMK 3 MOD 0 REMOTE ORDNANCE NEUTRALIZATION SYSTEM (RONS) MISSION • Complement/augment the EOD Technician when Performing Reconnaissance, Access, Render Safe, Pick up and Carry Away, and DisposalDuring Hazardous EOD Missions • Indoor/Outdoor Capability • IEDs/Conventional Ordnance Source: Air Force Link Source: Air Force Link

  9. DEPLOYED Operation ENDURING FREEDOM DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM JOINT SERVICE EODROBOTIC PROGRAMSMAN TRANSPORTABLE ROBOTIC SYSTEM (MTRS) MISSION • Complement/Augment the EOD Technician when Performing Reconnaissance, Render Safe, Disruption, Disposal DuringExtremely Hazardous EOD Missions • Indoor/Outdoor Capability • UXO/IEDs “While airborne robots, otherwise known as unmanned aerial vehicles, first gained notoriety in Operation Desert Storm, a treads-on-the-ground cousin, the ‘Packbot,’ has now debuted in Operation Iraqi Freedom.” “A robot was used to remotely look for enemy soldiers thought to be hiding in an agricultural center building on March 30th. The following day it was used to remotely examine equipment left on an airfield before engineers from the 101st Airborne cleared the runway for humanitarian relief operations, according to Sgt. 1st Class Tim South, special projects noncommissioned officer for the Rapid Equipping Force.” Excerpts from “Robots put “treads on the ground” in Iraq “By Timothy L. Rider, Information Management Task Forcehttp://www.amc.army.mil/amc/pa/releases03/robots.html

  10. The EOD Underwater UXO “Toolbag”Tactical Integration of Small UUVs with Diver & MMS Forces EOD & VSW DIVER • Tactically integrate affordable, small UUV systems into the VSW & EOD toolbags to: • Reduce risk to divers • Improve effectiveness and efficiency • Sustain “small team” concept in spite of proliferating UXO threats • Get man out of the minefield where possible MCM MARINE MAMMAL SYSTEMS

  11. MK 5 MMS Object Recovery System DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM FLEETMARINE MAMMAL SYSTEMS MK 4 MMS Mine Countermeasures MK 7 MMS Mine Countermeasures MK 8 MMS VSW MCM MK 6 MMS Force Protection Swimmer Defense

  12. DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM MK 6 MARINE MAMMAL SYSTEM Mission: Swimmer & Diver Detection Complement: Six Dolphins Sensory Capability: BioSonar Rapid Deployment Capability • Calls to Duty: • Vietnam, 1970 • EARNEST WILL, 1987 • Republican Convention, 1996 • IRAQI FREEDOM

  13. MK 6 MMS TOOL BAG • Design: 3-layer system • Inner Waterproof Vinyl Liner • Thermal Neoprene Bag Layer • Exterior Nylon Protective Bag

  14. DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM MK 7 MARINE MAMMAL SYSTEM • Mission: Bottom Mine Hunting & Neutralization • Complement: Eight Dolphins • Sensory Capability: BioSonar • Rapid Deployment Capability • Enhancements: • Shipboard Forward Deployment • SW/VSW Amphibious Mine Hunting Source: US Navy News • Calls to Duty: • Republican Convention, 1996 • IRAQI FREEDOM Source: US Navy News

  15. DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM MK 7 MMS VSW A MK 7 MMS Product Improvement Program • Work Boat Equipment and Tactics Focus on Operations in VSW Region (10-40 FSW) • Operates in a Post Assault Environment Against VSWAnti-Invasion Mines • Marker Station Keeping in Surge Environment • Reports Bottom or In-Volume Mines

  16. DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM MK 8 MARINE MAMMAL SYSTEM Mission: Advance Force & Pre-Assault VSW MCM Complement: Four dolphins Sensory Capability: BioSonar Rapid Deployment Capability • Capabilities: • Minefield exploration and reconnaissance • Detect and locate all VSW mines • Higher probability of detection and significantly greater search rates than divers • Shipboard Forward Deployed • Employment: • Production Decision Oct 2001 • Several Fleet exercises in conjunction with developmental testing • Calls to Duty: • IRAQI FREEDOM

  17. DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM MK 8 MMS Source: AP News Source: US Navy News Source: US Navy News

  18. DEPLOYED Bahrain NEW MARINE MAMMAL SECURITY SYSTEM Product Improvement to existing MK 5/6 MMS. Prototype Deployed to Bahrain ISO Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Source: US Navy News Source: US Navy News Source: US Navy News Source: US Navy News

  19. DEPLOYED Operation IRAQI FREEDOM EVOLUTIONARYVSW MCM UUV PROGRAMSmall UUV Systems for Search-Classify-Map UUV Mission • Developed Cadreof SmallUUV Experts • UOES Completed150 missions/Over 200 hoursUUV mission time • Vehicles traveled >700 NM through water • Developed SOP and draft CONOPS for integration into MCM Force • Interim capability:3-vehicle system(MK18 MOD 0 SCULPIN) • Exercises: • Kaho’olawe Survey • Full Mission Profiles, Camp Pendleton • Exercise Bank Shot, North Carolina • RIMPAC-02, Hawaii • FBE-J, Camp Pendleton • Calls to Duty: • San Diego Bay Carrier Pier Search (Post-9/11) • Deployed to C5F for ATFP Operational Demonstration – ASU BAHR • Umm Qasr, IRAQI FREEDOM

  20. EOD ATFP UUV PROGRAMPost - 9/11 Defense Emergency Response Fund (DERF) Initiative • Limited Deployment Capability for Rapid Object Localization Tactics With Small UUVs • FY03/04 Initiative • Fielded Prototype REMUS UUVs at two EOD Units (1 East Coast/1 West Coast) within 10 Months of Funding Start • > 30 Missions Per Unit to Date • Ship Berthing Area Surveys • Mine Relocation at Ingleside • Fleet feedback continues – Feeding Requirements Refinement for FY 2004 EOD UUV Program • Shorter Tactical Timelines and Reduced Risk to Diver Search in Harbors and Under Hulls • ROV Rapid Procurement Ongoing to Assist in Under-hull Tactics • ONR Technology Efforts Ongoing for Under Hull UUV Applications Bridge Pilings

  21. Source: US Navy News Source: US Navy News Operation IRAQI FREEDOM OPERATIONAL STATISTICS: • Four Teams of Specialized Underwater Operators to Include: • US Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Six (DETs 2, 6, and 8) • US Naval Special Clearance Team One(with a UUV Platoon, a Diver Platoon, and2 Dolphin DETs) • UK Fleet Diving Group, and • Australian Clearance Dive Team • SOME SPECIFIC STATISTICS: • 913 Nautical Miles of Water Space Cleared (Coalition MCM Ships, Helos, Coalition Divers, UUVs, and Mammals) • 237 Mine-like Objects Discovered/ Investigated • 90 Mines Recovered/Interdicted • 11 Mines Destroyed

  22. EOD FORCESOperation IRAQI FREEDOM UMM QASR EOD FORCES • Coalition forces conducted land and water clearance operations in the Port of Umm Qasr • U.S. Navy EOD Teams disposed of 4,962 items for a total net explosive weight of 35,937 lbs UXO • Coalition divers conducted a total of 174 dives for a total bottom time of 110 hrs and 20 min • Cleared 21 berths and all land areas in new and old ports 1 MEF/CFLCC EOD SUPPORT • U.S. Navy EOD Teams assigned to U.S. Marine Corps: • Assigned to Marine Engineering Group (MEG SERT) providing land and riverine IED, UXO and landmine clearance support (cleared 27 caches, 24 neighborhoods, train station and a hospital) • Assigned to Fuel Line Teams and maneuver element providing land, IED, UXO and landmine clearance support • Disposed over 800,000 items for a total net explosive weight of over 330,000 lbsUXO

  23. EOD FORCESOperation IRAQI FREEDOM (cont’d) CFLCC RESTORE IRAQI OIL EOD SUPPORT • U.S. Navy EOD assigned to Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO) mission in Southern and Northern Rumaila Oil Fields escorting LOGCAP • Cleared GOSPs in southern fields, GOSPs and pump stations in northern fields, GOSPs and pump stations and IPSA in Az Zubayr • Cleared 402 oil wells and over 2 square miles for firefighting and media • Located and disposed of 21 weapons and ammo caches with total N.E.W. of approximately 11,000 lbs. SALVAGE • Conducted salvage/recovery operations in support of coalition forces • Recovered 2 SH-3 UK helicopters and 6 of 7 deceased aircrew • Recovered A/V-8 A/C • Disposed/scuttled 2 partially submerged Dhows (hazards to navigation) • Salvage of 2 sunken Patrol Boats in Ports of Umm Qasr and KorAzubahr

  24. EOD FORCESOperation IRAQI FREEDOM (cont’d) EOD FP DIVES • Conducted 482 EOD Force Protection Dives in support of C5F, MPS, APS, and MSC shipping. • Kuwait - Port of Ash Shuaybah and KNB: 46 • Qatar - Port of Mesaieed: 35; Seychelles: 11; Djibouti: 7 • Bahrain - Mina Sulman: 117 • UAE - Jebel Ali/Fujiara: 251 • Oman - Salalah: 15

  25. “The arrival of a relief ship laden with emergency supplies at the port of Umm Qasr on Friday followed several days of allied mine clearing efforts… in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The operation marked…the initial operational launch of Navy unmanned underwater vehicles, according to Rear Adm. Paul Ryan, Commander of Mine Warfare Command.” Inside the Navy, 31 March 2003 “It’s [NSCT-1 UUV Platoon] done a wonderful job for us over there in the Umm Qasr vicininty and we are looking forward to the end of the conflict to be able to tell the full story of the first operational deployment of UUVs.” RDML Paul Ryan, CMWC Inside the Navy , 31 Mar 2003 “…[UUVs] gadgets were the main workhorses of the mine clearing effort… if one got blown up in the process, the relatively cheap price meant it would be no big deal.” LT Richard Haas, USN OIC, NSCT-1 Inside the Navy ,31 Mar 2003 EOD FORCESOperation IRAQI FREEDOM (cont’d)

  26. EOD FORCESOperation IRAQI FREEDOM (cont’d) • COMLANTFLT endorsement to a COMEODGRU TWO ltr outlining requirement for small UUVs for Navy EOD underwater UXO operations. • “UUVs will allow divers to focus on the more complex and arduous task of neutralization, in place render safe operations and exploitation intelligence gathering.” Paul Ryan RDML, USN CLF N8 • Post 9-11 REMUS Employment in Carrier Basin/San Diego. • “Search and reacquisition of targets consumes an inordinate amount of available mission time using current technologies. UUV employment will act as a force multiplier and allow EOD technicians and divers to use their limited bottom time rendering safe underwater ordnance or conducting salvage operations vice conducting extensive search operations.” W. E. Wright, CAPT, USN COMEODGRU ONE

  27. SUMMARY • PMS-EOD responsible for the majority of the UUVs and UGVs fielded in DoD. • PMS-EOD remains closely engaged with sponsor and end-users in accelerated acquisition projects for small UUVs and UGVs. • Tactical integration of these tools with EOD forces, their TT&P, and with other tools in their toolbag is key to successfully countering UXO in the operational environment. • Leveraging technology investments of other larger UUV and UGV programs and technology investments remains a key element of our strategy.

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