Chemical Materials Agency [CMA]
The Chemical Materials Agency was created as a result of the official re-organisation on October 9, 2003 of Soldier and Chemical Biological Defense Command (SBCCOM).
The Chemical Materials Agency was designed to enhance the safe storage and elimination of the nation's aging chemical weapons. The U.S. Army announced the creation of the agency designed to enhance the safe storage and elimination of the nation's aging chemical weapons.
The new organization, the Chemical Materials Agency (Provisional), combines the demilitarization and storage functions under a single director. Formerly, these functions were operated separately under the Chemical Demilitarization Program (CDP) and the Soldier Biological and Chemical Command (SBCCOM).
The agency is part of the program reorganization directed by Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White, who requested that Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA (ALT)) Claude M. Bolton, Jr. assume overall responsibility for chemical demilitarization for the Army.
In 2002, the Army accomplished much in its chemical weapons destruction effort, including the destruction of GB (Sarin) at Tooele, Utah; construction of a destruction facility at Pine Bluff, Arkansas; completion of testing efforts at a facility in Anniston, Alabama; selection of destruction technologies at Pueblo, Colorado, and at Richmond, Kentucky; and acceleration of the neutralization programs at Aberdeen, Maryland, and Newport, Indiana.
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