Conventional Munitions Demil

Abstract

The Conventional Munitions Demilitarization Technology Project supports the Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition (SMCA) responsibility per Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5160.68 to plan, program, budget and fund a Joint Service research and development program that develops capability and capacity as well as technology and facilities to support the SMCA mission to demilitarize and dispose of conventional ammunition stored in the SMCA Resource, Recovery and Disposition Account (B5A). Project goals include SMCA efforts to increase efficiencies and effectiveness to reduce the demil stockpile; reduce processing costs including packaging, handling and crating; and increase capacity through improved demil capabilities and processes. Project F24 includes several activities: (1) to establish requirements and develop processes to focus investments, assess capabilities, analyze alternatives, and recommend and implement RDT&E projects; (2) to improve products and processes that support existing capabilities; (3) to develop or improve demil methods and processes related to advance the primary demilitarization core thrust areas of destruction, disassembly, removal, resource recovery and recycling, and waste stream treatment; (4) to ensure safe and environmentally acceptable demil operations; (5) to transition RDT&E products to United States Army depots or plants as well as commercial facilities performing demil; and (6) to mitigate risk and close-out Project activities. During Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Project F24 will focus efforts on fielding alternative capabilities to open burn and open detonation. In FY21 Project F24 will also conduct conventional ammunition demilitarization operational testing on a Castalia system.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: F24_0605805A_6_2040_PB_2021

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• Environmental Engineering.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering