Joint IED Defeat Organization Foundation
In 2003, K2 became a founding member of the Army’s Counter-IED Task Force. K2 has served the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) and its predecessor organizations since the inception of the task force.

Since then, and with K2’s non-stop advisory services, JIDO has grown through several permutations and at its peak, was a $3B entity supporting the Global War on Terrorism. K2 provides direct support to JIDO and deployed forces, supporting the military efforts in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and other OCONUS/CONUS locations. K2 has continued to provide support in Counter-IED efforts through two key programs: Special Operations Forces Support Team (SOFST) and the Joint Expeditionary Teams (JET). Our JET teams alone have served over 250 rotations, continuously maintaining an OCONUS presence with all Combatant Commands.

United States Marine Corps IED Detections Dogs
Beginning in 2009, K2 was awarded a series of contracts to provide IED Detection Dogs (IDD) to the US Marine Corps, a capability that was developed by the researchers at Auburn University. K2 was charged with fielding this capability to our Marines in Afghanistan and ultimately trained and certified over 650 canines, over 1,000 Marines and conducted countless training events in US and throughout Afghanistan. The program provided several innovations that revolutionized canine bomb detection—most notably the idea that well-trained canines could work semi-autonomously, off-leash, incredibly effectively.

Notably, K2’s trainers did not learn Explosive and Weapons detection in the US, with a low threat, but in a warzone where the threat was imminent—life and death.