{"id":15847,"date":"2018-08-22T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/08\/22\/army-eod-soldiers-will-soon-get-a-whole-new-kit-and-new-robots\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:52:01","slug":"army-eod-soldiers-will-soon-get-a-whole-new-kit-and-new-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2018\/08\/22\/army-eod-soldiers-will-soon-get-a-whole-new-kit-and-new-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Army EOD soldiers will soon get a whole new kit \u2014 and new robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BETHESDA, Md. \u2014 The explosive ordnance disposal community has played a key role in operations in recent wars, and that role will only grow as the Pentagon shifts its focus to major combat operations<\/a> against near-peer threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that growing role, the equipment those EOD technicians carry <\/a>with them will change, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the National Defense Industrial Association\u2019s annual Global EOD Symposium recently, multiple speakers focused on how the community has spent the past two decades primarily working the improvised explosive device<\/a> threat. But they cautioned that old and new threats will emerge in major combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repeated throughout their comments was the admonition that the community must be \u201cfull EOD, not just IED.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To meet that mission, the Army is turning to technology to help fill the gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\t