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Voice Over: Fire in the hole!

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Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!

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Frantz: REDOPS is a program under DHS S and T that has been specifically formed

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to help the public safety bomb squads to effectively defeat IEDs.

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Sharkey: Technology advances so quickly in this environment and of course,

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state and local bomb squads

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don't have the money to keep up or do R&D on technology.

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REDOPS, they basically take great ideas from these guys out in the field

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and fund those ideas to make them a reality for state and local bomb squads

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to use throughout the United States.

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Frantz: DHS has partnered with the FBI,

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because the FBI, they're the national program managers for Render Safe Operations,

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so that once we validate the ideas and validate them for safety,

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we could integrate that into the hazardous device school,

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which is a school that all bomb techs certify under.

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Vabnick: We've been working with them on a pipe bomb defeat procedure

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that's three times faster and more reliable in many respects

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to the current standard methods used.

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We're currently working on a publication for a shock tube dispenser.

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It's a type of an explosive material that bomb technicians use.

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It's very difficult to deploy.

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Sharkey: One of our biggest concerns with shock tube

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is basically unwinding it and getting tangled up.

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So this one technician up in New Jersey State Police

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came up with this wonderful idea and DHS S and T basically took that idea,

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funded it and basically developed the tools for state and local bomb squads

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to be able to purchase that.

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Window technology, obviously you know used to be just glass.

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Now it's laminate glass, so there's basically a film on the glass,

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so if you get into an accident,

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the laminate glass prevents the glass from shattering all over somebody.

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As a bomb technician trying to access into a vehicle,

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you try to penetrate that window and it doesn't shatter,

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it's pretty much defeated your goal.

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DHS S and T funded some testing and training

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to come up with a window laminate charge

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to basically penetrate that window effectively and quickly

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for the bomb technician to gain access

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and to put a camera in there, do the diagnostic.

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Selleck: A lot of this effort

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was to use items that are easily attainable out on the economy.

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So it's not an RDT&E effort to bring on a very expensive tool.

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Instead it's how can we use the things around us

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to make technicians and therefore the community safer.

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Frantz: Different tools and techniques that we've developed under this program

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have been used by special agent bomb techs

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and individual public safety bomb squads.

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We also know that a lot of the assessments that we've done, bomb squads,

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even DOD EOD teams have used the information to feed into their acquisitions.

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So we know that we're doing is making a difference.

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