MIDAS Program

Abstract

The MIDAS Program was established in 1992 to identify alternatives to open burning and open detonation, and to provide a systematic approach to the disposition of unwanted ammunition items. Over four hundred thousand tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable dissimilar munitions, ranging from small caliber cartridges to complex cluster bomb units, await disposal. Characterization of ammunition components and constituents is essential to support the four MIDAS Program thrust areas: demil execution, resource recovery and recycling (R3), research and development technology application, and environmental permitting. Centrally located MIDAS data is available to Government, Industry, and Academia; as a management tool to respond to these thrust areas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA516896

Entities

People

  • Tyrone Nordquist

Organizations

  • Defense Ammunition Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Ammunition Components
  • Bombs
  • Chemical Elements
  • Chemistry
  • Cluster Bombs
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Explosives
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Relational Databases
  • Standards
  • Websites

Readers

  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design