Department of Defense`s Unexploded Ordnance Center of Excellence (UXOCOE)

The Department of Defense`s Unexploded Ordnance Center of Excellence (UXOCOE) is managed by the Joint UXO Coordination Office (JUXOCO) at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Their Mission is to improve the effectiveness and economy of UXO clearance research, development, test and evaluation throughout the five DoD mission areas by: Providing wide access to the best technology investigations and potential solutions to requirements. Providing an effective, fully coordinated,requirements driven RDTE program. Identifying potential duplication and overlap of RDTE. Leveraging technological capabilities of other communities government, industry and academia and international community.

The five mission areas covered include:

• Explosive Ordnance Disposal
• Environmental UXO Remediation
• Active Range Clearance
• Countermine
• Humanitarian Demining

UXOCOE requirements can be found on the UXOCOE web site at http://www.uxocoe.brtrc.com/Requirements/. UXOCOE advertises many UXO related efforts on an as needed basis throughout the year. The efforts advertised and ultimately funded are a function of the active requirements and available funding. Although many UXO related efforts are advertised through and sometimes jointly managed by the UXOCOE they are more of a coordiantion office and as such tend not to fund many of the efforts directly themselves. UXOInfo.com will post open UXOCOE opprotunities when available.