CHEMICAL MATERIALS ACTIVITY (CMA)
Headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity (CMA) director serves as the treaty
implementing agent, delegated by the Department of Defense (DOD) to support United States compliance with the international Chemical
Weapons Convention treaty. The CMA Center for Treaty Implementation and Compliance manages our Nation’s treaty implementation and
compliance activities, including declared recovered chemical warfare materiel and single small-scale facilities.
As the program executioner for the DOD Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel Program, CMA supports Army readiness by assessing and destroying
chemical warfare materiel using transportable technologies wherever it is recovered in the United States. CMA’s Recovered Chemical Materiel
Directorate provides centralized management and direction to DOD for the assessment and destruction of recovered chemical warfare materiel
in a safe and environmentally compliant manner.
CMA provides DOD the expertise for safe and secure storage of chemical warfare materiel pending its destruction. The Army draws on CMA’s extensive
knowledge and experience in managing chemical agent and munition assessment and destruction, storage facility design, safe handling and accountability
processes to posture other nations’ stockpiles for destruction in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty, if required. CMA also stood
up Redstone Chemical Activity (CMA RCA) to support the Army’s investigative environmental remediation and storage activities at Redstone Arsenal in
Huntsville, Alabama.
LEADERSHIP
DIRECTOR
U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL MATERIALS ACTIVITY
COMMANDER
REDSTONE CHEMICAL ACTIVITY
DIRECTOR
RECOVERED CHEMICAL MATERIEL