 Since 1979, the Nimble Elder Program has supported the Joint Force to locate, identify and characterize radiological and nuclear threats. The Joint Force, as part of the Combat and Commands Response Forces, is tasked to respond to events around the world. The Nimble Elder training allows for greater interaction and cooperation between the research and development part of DITRA and the operations and integrations side of it. So the technical support groups working very closely together with research and development are able to help integrate new and emerging technologies mostly developed with help from DITRA for the use by the special operations community in the use of counter WMD missions. So what we have happening during this type of training is we have some experimentation and testing with new technologies where the operators are able to provide immediate feedback back to the research and development team in order to help and further improve on some of these technologies.