[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Robots clear UXO at Ft. Bliss (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Robots Remove Unexploded Ordnance for New
Range Construction

Environmental Command leads technology demonstration at Fort Bliss.

By Stephen Baack
Fort Bliss Monitor
in Environmental Update, U.S. Army Environmental Center
Spring 2009

A variety of robotic technologies detected and removed unexploded 
ordnance from training ranges at Fort Bliss, Texas, during a 
demonstration sponsored by the U.S. Army Environmental Command early 
this year.

The demonstration was part of the Army's effort to find technologies to 
make new range construction safer, quicker and less costly. Base 
Realignment and Closure, Army growth and transformation are pushing 
range modernization to the top of the priority list at many installations.

Leaders from the Pentagon, USAEC, the Aberdeen Test Center, the Air 
Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
observed the robots in action in February, near the end of the project.

The trial focused on pinpointing ways to detect and remove unexploded 
ordnance - a task more important than ever as the range modernization 
program expands, said Plyler McManus, chief of the Military Munitions 
Design Center for the Corps of Engineers.

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For the entire article, see
http://aec.army.mil/usaec/newsroom/update/spr09/spr0902.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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