ECBC’s Chemical Fingerprint Imaging System Gives Warfighters and Law Enforcement a Powerful New Detection Tool
That was the problem Augustus Fountain, Ph.D., the Army’s Senior Research Scientist (ST) for Chemistry, faced when he deployed to Iraq in 2010 as the chief scientist, advising the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cells, or CEXC lab. These are elite mobile field laboratories with the mission of rapidly exploiting evidence that…
ECBC Researchers Work to Develop the Next Generation of Battlefield Obscurants
For the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) researchers who develop and field smoke and obscurants, this means turning to something other than smoke entirely – nanoparticles. This involves finding the right shapes, varying from flakes, to rods to discs, and finding just the right sizes for each, plus the blend…
ECBC Honors Military Veterans for their Service
ECBC Military Deputy Col. Thomas Saltysiak reflected on the military’s current challenges. “I believe it is not hyperbole to say we face the greatest threats today since the height of the Cold War, or even WWII. So today, even as we are here to honor the tremendous contributions and sacrifice…
Eric Moore Appointed ECBC’s Permanent Director
The announcement was made Oct. 30 by Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, commanding general of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, ECBC’s higher headquarters. Moore served as ECBC’s research and technology director from August 2016 to May 2017. “It’s a tremendous honor to be selected to lead our world-class…
ECBC’s Layered Sensing Initiative Featured at 2017 AUSA Expo
The AUSA Annual Meeting and Expo is the nation’s biggest stage for Army organizations to showcase their best defense technology. The Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) team behind the Layered Sensing Initiative presented the project at a special AUSA forum called Innovators’ Corner Oct. 11.
ECBC Hosts 3-Day Symposium for the International Aerosol Research Community
“The purpose of the symposium was to find ways for the larger aerosol research and testing community to coordinate and streamline efforts, standardize methods and techniques, and better collaborate across organizations in the face of tighter research funding,” said Aime Goad, an ECBC chemical engineer and branch chief, and leader…
Business Model Reduces Army Cost to Maintain Capabilities
Take, for example, the Field Deployable Hydrolysis System (FDHS), which was designed as a result of an urgent strategic requirement for a mobile system to destroy bulk Syrian chemical agent and precursor material. The Army may, or may not, need to operate it again under similar conditions. CBARR is responsible…
Guest Speaker: Johns Hopkins’ Gronvall Discusses Synthetic Biology at ECBC
Gigi Gronvall, Ph.D., a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and visiting faculty at Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke on “Designing Defense: Using Synthetic Biology for National Security.” Her work in synthetic biology focuses on the role of scientists in health security. As a…
ECBC Unveils Modernized, One-of-a-Kind Test Chamber
ECBC proudly unveiled the newly renovated Chemical Agent and Explosives Chamber at a ribbon-cutting ceremony held today at U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The chamber is the only one in the nation that enables large-scale tests of equipment and vehicles with chemical agent and explosives simultaneously―a scenario that Warfighters…
West Point Cadets Participate in Cutting Edge Research with ECBC Scientists
They do this through the Academy’s Advanced Individual Academic Development Program. Under the program, students forfeit their vacation to receive additional laboratory academic credits towards their education. In addition to the extra credits, they get the opportunity to be exposed to the latest technologies and equipment, and be personally mentored…