Author: Board on Army Science and Technology

Armor plays a significant role in the protection of warriors. During the course of history, the introduction of new materials and improvements in t...

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of ...

Combat helmets have evolved considerably over the years from those used in World War I to today's Advanced Combat Helmet. One of the key advances w...

During the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies...

The United States manufactured significant quantities of chemical weapons during the Cold War and the years prior. Because the chemical weapons are...

In 1993, the United States signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of ...

One of the last two sites with chemical munitions and chemical materiel is the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. The stockpile at this loc...

The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons that need to be destroyed. The PC...

The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is under construction near Richmond, Kentucky, two dispose of one of the two remaini...

January 2012 saw the completion of the U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency's (CMA's) task to destroy 90 percent of the nation's stockpile of chem...

The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400,000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60,000 tons are added to the...