Military.com reports that Congress has taken up a request to approve $2.4 billion in funding for the Pentagon’s Joint IED Defeat Organization. That will be in addition to $2 billion that has already been approved. Of course, funding was never a problem in dealing with the IED threat–the Republican Congress threw as much money at the problem as they possibly could. Most of that money went to elaborate technologies that promised to deliver a “silver bullet” solution to neutralize the threat, but the toll from IEDs held steady. And the influx of Iranian-made explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) has made the military’s task considerably more difficult. Military experts have been emphasizing the need for a tactical, rather than a technological, solution, but the military continues to push for more armor and more jammers to solve the problem. Still, General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, acknowledged in the hearings yesterday that there was much more to defeating IEDs than new technologies.