DDESB/DESCIM Enhancement of Automated Systems

Abstract

The Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) has oversight responsibility for manufacturing, testing, handling, maintenance, development, demilitarization, disposal, transportation and storage of ammunition and explosives of the Department of Defense (DoD) explosives safety community. The Defense Environmental Corporate Information Management (DESCIM) Program Management Office (PMO), working under the direction of the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security (DUSD(ES)) is responsible for the identification and enhancement of automated systems that assist the DDESB and DoD explosives safety community to efficiently perform their functions. The DESCIM PMO and DDESB have identified five main functional areas of explosives safety. These automated functional areas are known as the Defense Explosives Safety Management Suite (DESMS). 1. Explosives Safety Policy 2. Accident, Incident, and Malfunction Reporting and Analysis 3. Explosion Models 4. Site Planning, Waivers, and Exemptions 5. Unexploded Ordnance (UXO/Ordnance and Explosive Waste (OEW) Contaminated Lands)i

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA509402

Entities

People

  • Ken E. Pesola
  • Phillip C. Wager

Organizations

  • United States Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Ammunition
  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Corporate Information Management
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environmental Security
  • Explosives
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Unexploded Ammunition

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering