Developing a Center of Expertise

In April 1990 Huntsville was designated by Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) as the Mandatory Center of Expertise (MCX) and Design Center for all USACE activities involving ordnance and explosives (OE). This assignment resulted from our experience on several precedent setting ordnan...

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Main Author: Nore, Robert
Other Authors: ARMY ENGINEERING AND SUPPORT CENTER HUNTSVILLE AL
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1996
Subjects:
Test Facilities
Equipment and Methods
Ammunition and Explosives
*ARMY FACILITIES
*ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
*EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
AMMUNITION
ORDNANCE
DEMOLITION
COMMUNITIES
SYMPOSIA
EXPLOSIVES
Hawthorne
Kodiak
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA507330
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA507330
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Summary:In April 1990 Huntsville was designated by Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) as the Mandatory Center of Expertise (MCX) and Design Center for all USACE activities involving ordnance and explosives (OE). This assignment resulted from our experience on several precedent setting ordnance projects. We had recently completed a surface clearance of a demolition area at Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant in Nevada, coordinated the cleanup of a beach at Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts using Army and Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units, conducted a site investigation of an OE site on Kodiak Island in Alaska, and completed surface and subsurface OE clearance at Tidewater Community College in Virginia. We had also completed a Feasibility Study at the Tierrasanta community in San Diego, California, and had just awarded a contract for the surface and subsurface clearance of 1900 acres there. These removal actions attracted high-level attention and demonstrated Huntsville's unique qualifications and expertise in the OE arena. See also ADM000767. Proceedings of the DoD Explosives Safety Seminar (27th) Held in Las Vegas, NV on 22-26 August 1996.

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