[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: Field Deployable Hydrolysis System

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon developing mobile units to neutralize chemical weapons  
materials

By Marcus Weisgerber
Air Force Times
September 4, 2013

WASHINGTON - Should the Pentagon need to destroy stockpiles of  
chemical weapons, it can do so with new mobile systems that can  
neutralize and destroy the materials, according to defense officials.

The Field Deployable Hydrolysis System (FDHS) is designed to destroy  
chemical warfare agents in bulk and can be up and running within 10  
days of arriving on site.

"We are acquiring some ability to deal with chemical materials should  
we be in a position where we have to do that," Frank Kendall, the  
Defense Department's undersecretary for acquisition, technology and  
logistics, said Wednesday during a presentation at the IDEEA- 
sponsored COMDEF conference in Washington.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.airforcetimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013309040028

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