The NATO Accredited Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices - Centre of Excellence (C-IED COE) organizes the Technical Exploitation in Water Environment 2024 (TEWE24) Seminar

22 November 2024.- From 19 to 21 November, the C-IED COE organized the fourth edition of its Technical Exploitation in Water Environment Seminar (TEWE24), held at its facilities in Hoyo de Manzanares, Madrid.   

The Seminar was officially opened by the C-IED COE director, Colonel Javier Corbacho Margallo, who acknowledged the presence of all the attendees and briefers, especially highlighting the cooperation of the Spanish law enforcement agencies in the execution of the trials analyzed during the Seminar.

One of the attendees was Mr. Sam Henze, from NATO’s Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber Division, who underlined the importance of the technical exploitation discipline for the Allies’ interoperability and the support to operations.

This fourth edition has counted on the participation of the Mine counter-measures Diving Unit, Spanish National Police and Civil Guard, as well as with experts from the C-IED COE, NATO and Swedish organizations related to technical exploitation.

During the three day-Seminar, experts in technical exploitation from Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye and the United States have gathered in an environment favourable to share expertise and knowledge and to foster the improvement of procedures and the interagency collaboration.

Prior to the celebration of the Seminar, several exercises and trials were conducted in order to assess the effects of IED in water environments, both on the surface and under water. Such effects and their exploitation in order to obtain information were analyzed during the Seminar. The sessions focused on physicochemical reactions, case analysis, infrastructures design, threat analysis, and collection and preservation of potential evidence.