CUBRC operates a chemical agent RDT&E test facility certified by the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) under a Bailment Agreement to receive, handle and use CW agents.  The laboratory has an unblemished safety record since chemical operations began in 1983.

The facility’s capability highlights are:

• Three separate laboratories with certified fume hoods dedicated to testing with chemical agents
• Work is performed with chemical agents, agent simulants, and toxic industrial chemicals
• 270m3 large item chemical test chamber for large-scale experiments and testing; vehicles, shelters, and stand-off chemical detection systems
• Analytical instrumentation to support test programs including MINICAMS™, thermal desorption systems, GC, GC/MS, IR, UV/VIS, and various wet chemistry techniques

CUBRC performs chemical agent RDT&E to support a wide variety of Government and commercial customers. 

• Chemical agent detector system evaluation and development
  Expertise in generation and characterization of agent vapors with various interfering components
• Decontamination Effectiveness Evaluation
  Small-scale individual equipment to full-scale decontamination systems; evaporation and desorption testing supporting agent fate research
• Filtration Testing
  Evaluation of filters to chemical agent vapors and aerosols, and testing of full-scale collective protection systems
• NBCCS Engineering and Testing for System Development Programs
  Vulnerability analyses, material selection and testing of materials, components, subsystems, and full systems
  
• Material / Textile Permeation and Desorption
  CRDC-SP-84010 and TOP 8-2-501 for permeation and MIL-DTL-64159 for desorption
• Method Development
  Development and validation of analytical methods for simultaneous low-level monitoring of multiple chemical agents

CUBRC provides research and testing of exceptional technical quality and is flexible and responsive to individual customer needs.