Conrad Whyne

Director, U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency

Mr. Conrad F. Whyne, Director of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA), is responsible for ensuring the secure storage and safe destruction of chemical weapons materiel, closure of demilitarization facilities, and planning for Base Realignment and Closure requirements. He assumed his role on January 25, 2008.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Whyne served as the Deputy Director of CMA and was responsible for chemical agent storage and disposal of the chemical agent stockpile at the CMA stockpile sites.

Mr. Whyne joined CMA in June 1984 as a project engineer while still a captain in the U.S. Army. Initially he served as a project engineer for the incapacitating agent BZ project during permitting, construction, and startup of that facility at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas. In August 1988, Mr. Whyne resigned his Army commission and became a federal civilian employee continuing to work on the BZ project. In May 1989, Mr. Whyne became the lead engineer for the Pine Bluff chemical agent stockpile disposal facility. He was responsible for oversight of the design, planning, and budgeting of this facility.

From August 1994 to April 1999, Mr. Whyne served as lead engineer and associate project manager for the Anniston, Alabama, chemical agent stockpile disposal facility. He was responsible for the overall project management, including supporting the contract solicitation process and overseeing the design contractor, the environmental permitting process, and the planning/budgeting for the project. From February 1996 through January 1997 Mr. Whyne also served as the Acting Site Project Manager for the Anniston stockpile disposal facility field office that opened in 1996.

In March 2000, Mr. Whyne was promoted to Deputy Project Manager for the Project Manager for Chemical Stockpile Disposal (PMCSD). Mr. Whyne became the Deputy Project Manager for the Project Manager for Chemical Stockpile Elimination when PMCSD and the Project Manager for Alternative Technologies and Approaches merged in May 2006. In January 2007 Mr. Whyne was reassigned to the position of Deputy Director of CMA.

From May 1978 until joining CMA in 1984 Mr. Whyne served on active duty as a U.S. Army chemical officer.

A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Whyne holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers, The State University, Piscataway, New Jersey.