Mission
The mission of the Chemical and Material Risk Management (CMRM) Program is to enhance readiness, support the warfighter, and build supply chain resilience by identifying and managing risks associated with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) usage of chemicals and materials.
Process Overview
The CMRM Program implements a consistent approach for identifying, assessing, and mitigating chemical and material risks following a Scan, Watch, Action process. The data-driven process leverages information from current regulatory actions, scientific developments, and subject matter experts to make risk management decisions that protect the warfighter, mitigate impacts to mission readiness, and address vulnerabilities in the domestic chemical supply chain.
Program Overview
- Evaluate mission criticality of DoD chemical and material use, assess availability of alternatives, and identify and communicate options to mitigate enterprise mission risk.
- Assess new or changing toxicity or regulatory standards as a result of new science, detection capabilities, or exposure pathways.
- Scan current industrial landscape for chemicals and materials that may be regulated or restricted and identify potential impacts to DoD mission readiness, the defense industrial base supply chain, the Foreign Military Sales program, or interoperability with Partners and Allies.
- Collaborate with Components within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) to evaluate fragility and criticality of chemical and material uses and recommend resource allocation to address critical needs and avoid mission impacts due to chemical obsolescence.
- Collaborate with the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (OASD(HA)) and OASD(Readiness) to collect emerging scientific and regulatory information to anticipate changes to occupational regulatory standards and impacts to the national defense mission.
- Engage with industry and other Federal agency partners to collect information on mission critical chemicals and materials.
Advancing SECDEF Priorities
- Restore the Warrior Ethos to support the needs of the warfighter and ensure mission readiness at high, uncompromised standards.
- Rebuild our Military by maintaining resilient supply chains that can efficiently, and cost effectively deliver mission critical chemicals and materials and by ensuring our forces have access to the existing resources they need for mission readiness and can acquire and field new technologies.
- Reestablish Deterrence by ensuring DoD has adequate sources of mission critical chemicals and materials to match threats to capabilities, rapidly field emerging technologies, and prevent foreign adversaries using these critical resources as threats and exploitations against U.S. interests.