END OF AN ERA


SYSTEM UPGRADED


A Chemical Biological Protective Shelter M8E1 sits fully deployed by the 628th Forward Surgical Team, on a training site during the Global Medic exercise July 13 at Fort Hunter Liggett, California. The shelter’s design increased its usable floor space and improved systems filtration, environmental control, power generation and load-carrying capabilities. (Photo by Spc. Justin Snyder, U.S. Army Reserve)


these systems have been fielded in locations both inside and outside the continental United States, with the remainder ready to be fielded once the base-closure and travel restrictions imposed by the global COVID-19 pandemic are lifted.


For more than 20 years, the CBPS program produced 496 CBPS systems that provide the warfighter with a clean, toxin-free work- space in which medical operations could be performed during both normal operations as well as during chemical and biologi- cal contaminated events. Without the CBPS system, the Army would have no means of providing medical operations in a chem- ical and biological contaminated environment.


Now that the CBPS program production has ended, the program will transition to sustainment. Te overall system sustainment activities transition to the Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's Integrated Logistics Support Command, Chem- ical and Biological Defense Product Support Integration


Directorate – Collective Protection and Decon Team in Warren, Michigan. Support for the system's control system software pack- age is provided by the Armament Software Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. Te acquisition program's staff will move on to other programs and functions.


For more information, go to https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio- item/cbd-chemical-biological-protective-shelter-cbps-m8e1/.


GREGG BUEHLER is the product manager for the Chemical


Biological Protective Shelter in the Office of the Joint Project Manager for Protection, Combat Capabilities Development Command – Soldier Center. He has an M.S. in materials system engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth. He is Level III certified in both program management and engineering.


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