Battelle                   

1550 Crystal Drive, Suite 500,
Arlington, VA 22202-4172
Contact Name: John V. Wade
Telephone Number: (703)  413-7849
Cell Number:  (614) 560-6478
Fax Number: (703) 413-7286
Email Address: wadej@battelle.org
Web Site: http://nationalsecurity.batelle.org

Battelle Memorial Institute provides certified facilities and technical expertise to support U.S. programs for chemical demilitarization, chemical and biological (CB) non-proliferation and treaty verification, and related environmental restoration programs. Battelle provides a full spectrum of scientific engineering, training and support services for both military and civilian clients with weapons of mass destruction for defense needs. Battelle provides CB defense systems analysis and engineering support to DoD, its service departments, and to weapons systems developers in the industrial community. For the CB defense Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation community, Battelle applies new technologies and operational principles to the following functional areas: operations analysis; human factors engineering; and equipment design, development, and evaluation.

Chemical and Environmental Technologies (CET)

Battelle executes projects involving a wide variety of hazardous materials. The CET group brings Battelle's analytical chemistry, analysis, design, and engineering skills to projects typically involving chemical defense and survivability and chemical demilitarization support. Additionally, it performs other difficult organic analyses and syntheses. Battelle's Hazardous Materials Research Center (HMRC), located in rural West Jefferson, Ohio is approved by the DoD to handle chemical surety material (CSM). The HMRC is certified both in the U.S. Army Chemical and Biological Defense Command's Contractor Performance Certification Program (CP)2 and in accordance with ISO 9001. Additionally, Battelle operates CSM laboratories for the U.S. Army Materiel Command's Treaty Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Edgewood Area), Maryland, and for the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command's West Desert Test Center at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

Aerosol Engineering and Biological Defense Science

In compliance with the Food and Drug Administration's regulations for licensing drugs and vaccines, Battelle assesses the safety and efficacy of medical countermeasures against chemical and biological agents. Battelle develops, tests, evaluates, and modifies a variety of biological agent detection systems for the Joint Services including BL-3 operations. The Aerosol Science and Technology (AS&T) group develops lab experimental and field test procedures for battlefield smoke/obscurants, and characterizes smoke dispersal systems and munitions. The AS&T group predicts point-source emissions and the transport/atmospheric fate of aerosols by means of modeling and field assessments for industrial processes.

Systems Analysis and Engineering

Battelle delivers on-site technology support for DoD and the Joint Services at client-centered offices in Columbus, Ohio; Edgewood, Maryland; Stafford, Virginia; Natick, Massachusetts; Crystal City, Virginia; San Antonio, Texas; and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Battelle's technical experts provide up-to-date information and assessments of current and future technologies for warning, detection, protection, decontamination, and modeling. Additionally, Battelle delivers innovative design solutions for CB protective clothing and equipment needs.

Knowledge Management and Information Analysis

Battelle provides specialized data systems and content to the CB community via an integrated team of professionals supporting three distinct functions: content development, data processing (electronic conversion and cataloging), and information technology. Applying its scientific and technical expertise to select and analyze relevant source documents, Battelle produces electronic encyclopedias containing comprehensive articles on CB warfare, CB defense, chemical agents, and agents of biological origin. Battelle's content development group conducts extensive data mining to produce articles at various levels of understanding, and publishes the related full-text source documents in electronic format. Our electronic processing team converts hardcopy and electronic source information for use by our information storage and dissemination systems. Large volumes of information are processed using state-of-the-art document conversion systems and software. Additionally, Battelle utilizes the latest information technologies to deliver web-accessible databases and knowledge bases (full-text/image) describing historical research and development programs for CB weapons. We also develop and support the infrastructure (servers and software) necessary to deliver high quality web based content.

Energetic Systems & Security Technology

In support of Federal Government counter-terrorism (CT) programs, Battelle focuses its research on characterization and suppression of bomb threats/effects, and on development of explosion containment, transport and mitigation devices. For clients in the CT and aviation security communities, Battelle supports R&D for explosives detection systems and conducts factory acceptance and field tests of equipment for detecting threat devices and hazardous/illicit substances. Additionally, Battelle has tested and evaluated a developmental CB Explosive Ordnance Disposal Suit and related protective equipment. Battelle specifies and develops laboratory simulants for CB agents, and high fidelity simulators of foreign missile warheads (including bulk and submunition configurations). Battelle has assessed the vulnerability of CB agents to destruction by various means, including shock, heat, light and chemical methods. The West Jefferson, Ohio test site has a Hypervelocity Impact Facility with light gas guns and special impact chambers and related instrumentation for testing agent simulant and target response. The site also has 3 indoor explosion containment chambers (up to 50 lb. TNT-equivalent), 3 integral ballistic ranges (up to 5-inch cal. projectiles), and facilities for storage, disassembly, and development of explosives, propellants and pyrotechnic-based materials and devices.

Special Program Offices

Chemical and Biological Defense Information Analysis Center (CBIAC)

Battelle has continuously operated the CBIAC, a full service Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC), under contract with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The CBIAC serves as the focal point for chemical and biological defense science and technology information.

Tooele Chemical Agent Demilitarization Facility

Anniston Chemical Agent Demilitarization Facility

Aberdeen Demilitarization Facility