History
JIEDDO was established as an organization on February 14, 2006. JIEDDO was initially formed as the Joint IED Defeat Task Force under the US Army’s Brigadier General Joseph Votel at the direction of the Army G3, LTG Richard Cody with focus on IEDs . The organization was expanded with the Defense-wide intelligence and operations communities as the Joint IED Defeat Task Force in July 2004 as an extension of the OSD Force Protection Working Group and the Army IED Task Force. Under the direction of the Honorable Gordon B. England, Deputy Secretary of Defense, the highly classified and diverse group was finally made the Joint IED Defeat Organization by DoD Directive 2000.19E, on February 14, 2006.
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