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The U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) is the world leader in programs to store, treat, and dispose of chemical weapons safely and
effectively. The agency developed and used technologies to safely store and eliminate chemical weapons at seven stockpile sites while protecting the
public, its workers and the environment. CMA also has the storage mission at the Nation's final two stockpile sites. CMA was created to incorporate the
former Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization and portions of the U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command into one agency. This
streamlines operations and allows for greater integration of these programs. More information on the organization is available at About CMA.
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The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) today announced the appointment of Don E. Barclay as its Acting Director, effective February 26, 2012. Barclay assumes this interim role on the heels of CMA’s former director, Mr. Conrad F. Whyne and his recent appointment as Program Executive Office – Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO-ACWA). Whyne was named PEO-ACWA on January 24, 2012. CMA completed the safe destruction of 27,473.65 U.S. tons of nerve and blister agents representing 89.75 percent of the Nation’s chemical agent stockpile and is the culmination of more than 20 years of dedicated work.
Army Agency Completes Mission to Destroy Chemical Weapons The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) completed the destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile at Deseret Chemical Depot (DCD) in Utah on Jan. 21, 2012. With the elimination of the Utah chemical weapons stockpile, CMA has safely destroyed nearly 90 percent of the Nation’s stockpile of chemical agent and has successfully completed its mission to destroy all chemical agent munitions and items declared at entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and assigned to CMA for destruction. The CWC, an international treaty ratified by the United States in April 1997, required the complete destruction of the Nation’s chemical weapons stockpile by April 2007. The United States was granted a five-year extension to April 2012 as allowed by the treaty.
DCD To Process Last Lewisite Agent On January 18, workers at the Deseret Chemical Depot (DCD) are processing the depot's last remaining chemical agent Lewisite through the Area 10 Liquid Incinerator. This milestone also follows destruction of the final mustard agent-filled 155mm projectiles through the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF). These two separate facilities will bring to an end the storage and destruction of what was once the largest-single chemical weapons stockpile in the United States.
CMA Open House On November 3, 2011, CMA hosted its third Annual Achievement Open House. The event was held at the Chemical Demilitarization Training Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground – Edgewood, Md. CMA’s key achievements during 2011 include the complete destruction of chemical weapons at three stockpile sites – Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility and Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. Additionally, Anniston was inducted into the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame, while Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility reached 11,111,111 consecutive man hours without a lost workday injury on January 1, 2011, or 1/1/11. It also marked more than five years without a lost workday due to an injury on the job. The Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project completed its mission at the Pine Bluff Ton Container Decontamination Facility, decontaminating 4,307 ton containers, which resulted in 6.5 million pounds of recycled steel.
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