A project completed eight years ago benefited the timely development of the system used to destroy declared Syrian chemical warfare materiel in 2014. Extensive research, testing, and development of the hydrolysis process for neutralizing chemical warfare materiel by the Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project (NSCMP), now Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate (RCMD), enabled a team of experts to develop and deploy the FDHS quickly and safely.