IABTI Region 2 and 3 Combined In-Service

IABTI · Regions 2 and 3

Region 2 and 3 Combined In‑Service

28 Sept – 2 Oct 2026 / Valparaiso, Indiana

A full week of hands-on training built around real scenarios and real tasks — not gear demonstrations. Improvised Electronics is building the devices and teaching 6 hours of 3D printing and 8 hours of electronics on site.

The Details

Training: MACC Emergency Services Training Center
4203 Montdale Park Dr., Valparaiso, IN 46383 — every day
Hotel: Holiday Inn Express — $110/night
1251 Silhavy Rd · (219) 464-9395
Cost: $400 member delegates
$450 per exhibitor rep · $150 each additional
Sign-in: Sunday 27 Sept, 1400–1800
Hospitality Suite, before Opening Ceremonies on the 28th
Register: www.iabti.org
Membership required. Questions: Pat Brady, 319-721-2280, region3@IABTI.org

Official IABTI Region 2 and 3 Combined In-Service 2026 flyer

Official flyerFull agenda, hotel block, and registration detail. Click to enlarge.

Get the Details

We will send you the confirmed lane lineup, registration instructions, and sponsored-slot information as it locks in.

First name

Last name

Phone

Unit / agency

Affiliation

I am interested in Attending the training lanes A sponsored slot (military EOD) Serving as an OC / lane evaluator Sponsoring a military attendee Exhibiting

Team size

Anything else

Interest form, not a registration. Improvised Electronics is an exhibitor and training partner for this event, not the registrar.

How it runs

This is not a trade show floor

Every lane is a documented training scenario with defined training objectives, run by an operational evaluator — a working bomb tech, SABT, or military EOD leader — not by sales staff. Exhibitors are there to issue their equipment, answer technical questions, and support the lane. The scenario belongs to the students.

Training lane bay at the IABTI Region 2 and 3 In-Service — Lane bays run back to back, so teams move without burning the clock on transitions.

Bomb technician working a device with digital x-ray while an evaluator observes — Working the problem under an evaluator — shoot it, read it, call your procedure.

Bomb technician being dressed out in a bomb suit before a training lane — Dress-out before a lane. Suit time counts against the clock, same as the street.

What you will face

The devices are purpose-built

Improvised Electronics designs and fabricates the circuits, switches, and firing systems in each problem, so the device you face gives real feedback and behaves the way the scenario says it behaves. Live fire is on the schedule this year.

Internals of a purpose-built training device showing circuit boards and wiring — Functional internals — not a mock-up with a wire loom glued to a board.

Bring your kit. If you are driving, break out your response truck. If you are flying, bring your first-line kit. Working your own equipment against these problems, alongside what the exhibitors put in your hands, is the point.

If a vendor tool is not the one your squad carries, use yours. Nobody learns anything from a lane that only works with the sponsor’s catalog.

Tentative agenda

The Week

6 hours of 3D printing — Improvised Electronics
8 hours of electronics training — Improvised Electronics
2 full days of scenario-based lane training with equipment from technology partners
Class on tactical medicine and resiliency
K-9 training track and training with bulk explosives

Being finalized

Planned Lanes

Hand Entry — manual approach and disassembly
Hostage / Person-Borne — live role player, on the clock
Hook & Line — remote manipulation from standoff
Precision Disruption — recoilless, including robot-mounted
Robotic Operations I & II — two platforms, two problems
X-Ray & Diagnostics — call your RSP off the image
HME Detection & ID — field identification
Downed sUAS — approach, exploit, render safe

Improvised Electronics on site

Electronics and 3D printing

Fourteen hours of instruction across the week — two subjects the bomb tech community keeps asking for and rarely gets hands-on.

Electronics instruction at the IABTI Region 2 and 3 In-Service — **Electronics.** The circuits behind real devices — switches, timers, initiation, and how to read a board when you find one.

3D printing for EOD instruction at the IABTI Region 2 and 3 In-Service — **3D printing.** Design, manufacture, repair — producing your own training aids and mission parts.

Bomb technicians working hands-on with a 3D printer — **Printers on site and running.** Hands on the machine, not slides about it.

Military participation

Military EOD — we want you there

This community is stronger when military EOD is in the room, and right now participation in IABTI is lower than it should be. Regions 2 and 3 are working to change that at this event.

Sponsored slots for military EOD attendees are being arranged through the region and its exhibitors. Numbers are limited and still being finalized — get on the list to be considered.
Serve as an evaluator. Active EOD leaders and SABTs who want to OC a lane come as staff. We provide the scenario, the training objectives, and the evaluator package.
You do not have to be in Region 2 or 3 to attend. Techs travel in from across the country. Region membership is not a barrier.

If you are a unit training NCO or officer building a case for this, say so on the form and we will send you what you need to route it.

Get the lane lineup

Registration instructions, the confirmed lanes, and sponsored-slot information as soon as they lock in.

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