WIT/ SICA Experiment in conjunction with Exercise Toxic Valley 2018
The C-IED COE, acting as the Executing Agent, coordinated and led the Sampling and Identification of Chemical Agent (SICA) and Weapons Intelligence Team (WIT) Interoperability Experiment at the Zemianske Kostol’any training area in Slovakia from 16-21 Sep 2018. The Experiment was designed to exercise current SICA and WIT capabilities in order to test existing doctrine, procedures for interoperability, and to identify gaps that could inform further capability developments. The Experiment consisted of three SICA teams from Slovakia, Slovenia, and Austria, along with three WIT from Romania, Austria, and Spain. Additionally, there were 11 evaluators from the C-IED COE, JCBRN Defense COE, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, and Italy. The SICA and WIT teams completed three scenarios that exercised their capabilities in a chemical environment with evidence that required Level 1 exploitation. The first scenario was a chemical cache with three 122mm chemical projectiles alongside a number of IED components. The second scenario was a low order post blast in a market place with extensive nerve agent contamination throughout the scene along with multiple IED components near the blast seat. The third scenario was a chemical laboratory with a large quantity of toxic industrial chemicals and an extensive amount of exploitable materials such as media, DNA, documents, HME, IED components, and numerous tools. All the teams and evaluators performed extremely well, and the group concluded the Experiment with a First Impression Review (FIR) which included 16 observations and recommendations form the evaluators, and three observations and recommendations from the SICA and WIT team leaders. A final report will be sent to the Emerging Security Challenges Division (ESCD) Counter Terrorism (CT) Section for further distribution.