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AMC Commanding General Gets First-Hand Look at ECBC Capabilities and Needs

DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center Public Affairs | April 17th, 2017

// NEWS RELEASE

AMC Commanding General Gets First-Hand Look at ECBC Capabilities and Needs

DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center Public Affairs | April 17th, 2017

// NEWS RELEASE

AMC Commanding General Gets First-Hand Look at ECBC Capabilities and Needs

DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center Public Affairs | April 17th, 2017

AMC Commanding General Gets First-Hand Look at ECBC Capabilities and Needs

DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center Public Affairs
April 17th, 2017

AMC Commanding General Gets First-Hand Look at ECBC Capabilities and Needs

RDECOM Executive Deputy Jyuji Hewitt, ECBC Director Joseph Corriveau, AMC Command Sgt. Maj. Rodger Mansker, AMC Commander Gen. Gustav Perna, and RDECOM Commander Maj. Gen Cedric Wins discuss the capabilities of RDECOM’s research laboratories during a visit to ECBC on April 12. Credit: U.S. Army RDECOM

General Gustav Perna, commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, visited the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) on April 12. He was briefed on the capabilities of the Research, Development and Engineering Command’s (RDECOM) research laboratories, followed by a tour of ECBC facilities.

Accompanied by RDECOM Commanding General Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins and ECBC Director Joseph Corriveau, Ph.D., Perna toured the Filtration Science Laboratory and learned about ECBC’s collaboration with other federal security agencies, industry, and academia. He also received a threat security briefing from ECBC threat experts.

The visit included a briefing on the Aberdeen Proving Ground Garrison’s obsolete building demolition program, including discussion of the demolition of Building E-3300. Such demolition would relieve ECBC of the cost of maintaining a vacant building and make the building’s footprint available for construction of a new generation of state-of-the-art research facilities.


The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, is Army Futures Command’s leader and integrator within a global ecosystem of scientific exploration and technological innovation. DEVCOM expertise spans eight major competency areas to provide integrated research, development, analysis and engineering support to the Army and DOD. From rockets to robots, drones to dozers, and aviation to artillery, DEVCOM innovation is at the core of the combat capabilities American Warfighters need to win on the battlefield of the future. For more information, visit devcom.army.mil.
The DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center is the primary DOD technical organization for non-medical chemical and biological defense. The DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center fosters research, development, testing and application of technologies for protecting our military from chemical and biological warfare agents. The Center possesses an unrivaled chemical biological defense research and development infrastructure staffed by a highly-trained, multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, technicians and specialists located at four different sites in the United States: Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas; Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois; and Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.