AIR HANDLING


An environmental enclosure inside the Cape Ray contains two FDHS units. Each $5 million system is capable of processing 5 to 25 metric tons of material daily. The enclosure is a standard part of chemical remediation, providing a safe and contained work environment. Its atmospheric controls are separate from the rest of the vessel and can mitigate any accidents or exposures involving contaminants within the enclosure. (DOD photo by C. Todd Lopez)


Proving Ground, MD, home to the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), which has dealt with chemical threats for nearly a century. ECBC’s mis- sion is to provide materiel management assistance that includes risk manage- ment and agent detection, testing and decontamination.


From the CMA, the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Bio- logical Defense (JPEO-CBD) formed the Joint Project Manager for Elimination (JPM-E) under the Joint Program Execu- tive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) to retain a DOD chemical warfare material destruction capability.


Tus, the team was set: the JPEO-CBD, with JPM-E and more than 40 years of


experience in the destruction of U.S. chemical weapons stockpiles and recov- ered chemical warfare materiel; ECBC, which employed its rapid prototyping capabilities and field operational experi- ence to construct a functional prototype; and DTRA, which partnered in vali- dating requirements, provided funding for the first prototype and integrated development into the larger military planning effort.


Sharing a location and a long history of working together, ECBC and JPEO- CBD collaborated to find a portable solution to the Syrian weapons dilemma. Te team started with a monthlong anal- ysis of the available technologies.


“Since we knew at the time that an over- whelming majority of the chemical


weapons were bulk liquid, we had to basically do a search around the globe on what capabilities exist today and what capabilities the U.S. owns that could deal with the chemical weapons in Syria,” said Carmen J. Spencer, the joint program executive officer for CBD. “We [were] very excited about this opportunity. It [would mean] one less nation on this planet that will then possess chemical weapons.”


Ultimately, the rapid pace of events and the need for simplicity were among the factors that led the team to determine that hydrolysis was the right technology. Hydrolysis is the process of using water to neutralize chemical agents and precur- sors. Te Army has used hydrolysis to destroy more than 7,000 tons of chemi- cal materiel in the United States since


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