Welcome to the General Atomics McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (MCAAP) Munitions Cryofracture Demilitarization Facility (MCDF) staff descriptions.  The success of this project depends on the people that are associated with the project.  Below is a list of the individuals who are onsite during the installation/checkout/startup phase of the MCDF. 

 

ACTIVE GA STAFF

 

Project Manager:  John Follin

 

 

 

 


Mechanical Installation:  Jim Huntsinger will continue to support installation and test operations.

 

                     Jim Huntsinger                                                       Cecil (on right)

 

 

 

Cryofracture Electrical Installation:  Perry Hom and Leroy

 

 

 

 

If all else fails, we can always look at the drawings!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Software Development/Integration:  Trinity Phan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Our support team in San Diego:

 

Lead Design/Engineering:  Rudi Klasen and Mike Skillicorn

 

 

                      Rudi (Design)                                              Mike (Project Engineer)

 

 

 

Chelsea Garen (Press & Tooling Design)      Raghunandan Karamcheti (Safety & Analysis)

 

 

                 Raymond Yuhasz (Lead)

 

 

 

Our Quality Engineering Staff:  Chuck Beal, Bob Derderian, and Don Cole

 

    

 

 

 

 

Angela Carter (Project Accounting/Finance)                  Document Shipping Staff

 

 


PLANT OPERATIONS :  McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (MCAAP)

 

Operator and Maintenance Training Classes

 

 

               Cryofracture Press                                    Press Munition Loader Robot

                      July 2003                                                          July 2003

 

 

 

 

     

    Positive Feed System & Dust Collection                      MCDF Control Room

                          July 2003                                                        October 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       Cryofracture Operations Training                Our MCAAP MCDF Trained Operators

                        October 2003                                                 October 2003

 

 

 

 

    Preparation Training prior to Dem/Val                     Plant Operating Procedures

                       April 2004

 


 

Our equipment suppliers

 

Mark, David, and Doug from PaR systems.

 

 

 


Our Sandia National Laboratory team

 

 

 

                      Jim Majors                                                          Chuck Yagow


Contract Customer:  U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC)

 

Florence Elie and Scott McDonald inspecting work at the site.

 

 

 

Mark loading ADAM mines into the Munition Transport Fixtures. 

     

 

Ray Goldstein in the MCDF control room observing integrated ADAM AP mine demilitarization operations. 

 


USACHPPM Staff performing APE-1236 off-gas monitoring

 

 

 


Other Visitors

 

Of course, we sometimes get some unwanted guests that do not want to leave.