What is JIDA?

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Colonel Richard J. Edwards is the Strategy, Plans and Policy Director on the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency's (JIDA's) coordinating staff, also known as the J5. Through the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, JIDA's J5 provides subject matter expertise and planning assistance to the U.S. Government interagency and its members on matters involving national measures to respond to the IED threat and trans-national threat networks that employ...

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Uncrewed & Autonomous Systems

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Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington, London, United Kingdom

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Defence Transformation

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Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington, London, United Kingdom

Defence Transformation

Land Warfare Europe

9 - 10 December 2025

Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Center Litexpo Vilnius, Lithuania

Land Warfare Europe

International Armoured Vehicles

20 - 22 January 2026

Farnborough International Exhibition Centre, UK

International Armoured Vehicles

Subsea Security & Defence

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Park Royal Beach Road, Singapore

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24 - 26 February 2026

Novotel London West, London, United Kingdom

International Military Helicopter

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