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CRG Automation Uses Robotics to Decommission Chemical Missiles

Organization: CRG Automation
Country: USA
Website: crgautomation.com
Year Founded: 2000
Number of Employees: 11-50
Innovation Class: Applications & Markets Innovation
Innovation Subclass: Defense

The system has been running and is on track to complete the project by a Department of Defense deadline of 2023.

Description:
RBRlogoCRG Automation built a robotic system to help decommission a stockpile of 70,000 M55 chemical missiles at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. The M55 missiles are filled with VX and sarin nerve agents.

The system combines traditional industrial robotic arms, autonomous mobile robots, and custom pick-and-place robots to make the work safer and more efficient, processing more than 25 missiles per hour.

Some of the major improvements to the process increased safety by identifying and handling leaking rockets, as well as reducing in-person maintenance requirements, lowering the risk of injury. After an 18-month design and approval process, the system has been running and is on track to complete the project by a Department of Defense (DOD) deadline of 2023.

Analysis:
The new automated decommissioning process of chemical weapons is not only more efficient, but it requires less in-person maintenance and, thus, removes human workers from potential harm. When you can take a person out of handling a chemical weapon, you have increased safety by magnitudes.

This project also has major social and political implications worldwide. Under the Chemical Weapons Convention international treaty, the United States must destroy chemical weapons such as the M55 rocket by 2023. With the new automated destruction process now in full swing, the US is on track to meet its international treaty deadlines and dispose of these weapons properly. - Steve Crowe

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