AMC creates a new organization to support chemical demilitarization

Army Logistician, March-April, 2008

The Army Materiel Command (AMC) has activated a new organization to support the Department of Defense's Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) program. The U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives, is structured as an AMC separate reporting activity. The AWCA program formerly was aligned with the Army Chemical Materials Agency.

The AWCA program was created by Congress to develop alternatives to incineration technology for destroying assembled chemical weapons. Successful demonstration of alternatives has shifted the program's focus to managing the design and construction of neutralization pilot plants at Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, and Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky.

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