Developing a Center of Expertise

• 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

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.