KRATOS TRAINING SEMINARs

 

Currently Kratos is offering two major seminar topics :

Assault IED Defeat Operations and Planning Training Seminar

Counter-Suicide Bomber Operations and Planning Training Seminar

(To view details and dates on either seminar topic click the above titles).

 

Kratos Enterprises Training Seminars:

Kratos Enterprises Ltd is able to offer a wide range of seminars for government, military and law enforcement as well as to the media and the wider business communities.  Our speakers are highly regarded throughout the world and have written numerous papers and presented extensively to global audiences.  All are former counter-terrorism specialists who have served as counter-terrorist bomb disposal operators in high threat environments, as well as commanders of fully operational specialist units in the improvised explosive device defeat area of expertise.

In addition to their technical expertise, all our consultants have extensive commercial experience, and have provided consultancy advice to national infrastructure facilities including key global financial districts.  Each has experience in intelligence matters related to IEDs and also significant experience of the development of counter-IED solutions. This, coupled with an advanced understanding of the worldwide terrorist use of IEDs and a minimum of ten years of C-IED experience in the military or subsequent consultancy to NATO governments in the same field, ensures Kratos Enterprises consultants rank amongst the finest available.

Kratos' Expert Trainer:

Is a highly experienced former British Army Ammunition Technical Officer and counter-terrorism specialist who has served in a variety of operational Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD) appointments and who has seen active service in a number of high threat theatres including Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia and Northern Ireland.

During much of his 17 year EOD career he specialised in overt and covert ‘Assault IEDD' operations in support of specialist Police and military counter terrorism Units. He was involved in the planning and execution of a number of anti-terrorist arrest operations around the world and was the architect of the British military EOD response to a suicide bomb attack on the UK mainland. Later, he played an instrumental role during the July 2005 London bombings when he was seconded to the British Government’s COBR-A as one of the country’s leading suicide terrorism subject matter experts.
 
In addition to his vast operational experience, he has designed numerous Counter-IED related training seminars, courses and exercises. He is highly experienced and qualified in all aspects of weapons intelligence and EOD including specialist manual techniques; CBRN device neutralisation; High threat IEDD operations; Assault IEDD; Explosive breaching and demolition as well as conventional munitions disposal.

He retired from the MOD in 2007 as the MOD’s senior worldwide IED intelligence analyst to become a counter-terrorism and explosives consultant and was awarded the Queens Gallantry Medal in 2005 for his actions in Iraq the previous year; he has written a best-selling memoir and presented numerous papers on countering IEDs; he is also a Fellow of the Institute of Explosives Engineers, a former chairman of its technical committee and a Member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators.