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Evalutes the technical soundness of existing methods for assessing the risks posed by unexploded ordance at U.S. military installations..
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The primary purpose of this study was to provide an analysis of the effectiveness of leadership through the interpersonal relationship between a team leader and a team. This research paper attempted to define "how" leaders create and handle effective teams. Specifically, this study was focused on UXO teams in a UXO environment performing a UXO clearance project still in progress. It was the aim of this study to provide information that will be beneficial to team leaders and will contribute to improvement of UXO team leadership techniques. METHOD This research evaluated the relationship between the leadership demonstrated by team leaders and the effectiveness and productivity of the teams. Adoption and use of Frank LaFasto and Carl Larson's (2001) six key dimensions (focus on the goal, ensure a collaborative climate, build confidence, demonstrate sufficient technical know-how, set priorities, and manage performance) provided the basis for this study. Frank LaFasto, Ph.D. and Carl Larson, Ph.D. developed the survey instrument adopted for this study, known as the Collaborative Team Leader Instrument, from an evaluation of approximately 600 team leaders and measures team leader effectiveness across the six key dimensions. FINDINGS The findings identified in this study provide some empirical support and insight into the strengths and weaknesses found in one case study. The findings revealed positive correlation in many of the researched areas within each hypothesis in the relationships and perceptions between team leaders and team members. However, the findings also indicated considerable negative correlation within one of the dimensions, the demonstration of sufficient technical know-how, which was actually expected to be one of the strongest. Overall it is concluded that this research has made an important contribution towards defining: how a leader creates and handles an effective unexploded ordnance team. The findings of this study should be beneficial to team leaders and contribute to improvement of UXO team leadership techniques..
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Some of the more difficult environmental problems facing the Department of Defense (DOD) include (1) chemical weapons destruction, (2) explosive waste remediation, and (3) unexploded ordinance clearance and extraction. It is conceivable that $50 to $100 billion will be spent by DOD for these three programs, offering unusual opportunities for environmental engineering and related firms.

Military installations are similar to small cities in terms of population, industrial activities, and some types of contaminated sites. However, some cover an area larger than a small state. DOD has operated industrial facilities on its installations for several decades that have generated, stored, recycled, or disposed of hazardous wastes. Many of these activities have contaminated the nearby soil and groundwater. To study and clean up contaminated sites, DOD established the Installation Restoration Program (IRP) in 1975. In 1984, the IRP was made part of the Defense Environmental Restoration Program.

The Secretary of Defense delegated cleanup responsibility to the Army, Navy, the Air Force, and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Clean-up actions are usually accomplished under con-tract with private firms, which are monitored by the services. Most cleanup actions are funded through the Defense Environmental Restoration Account (DERA) and the Base Realignment and Closure Account. Congress established DERA in 1984 to fund the cleanup of inactive contaminated sites on DOD installations.

The technology to cleanup the conventional hazardous wastes on DOD sites, are the same as those utilized for industrial sites, and well documented by this publisher.

However, there are three DOD programs that require the utilization of somewhat unusual or different technologies that have not been as well documented. These three programs are: (1) Chemical weapons destruction; (2) Remediation of explosives contaminated soils and lagoons; (3) Unexploded ordinance detection, clearance, and extraction.

This book discusses the current and potential treatment technologies involved in these three programs.

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This unclassified multiservice tactics, techniques, and procedures (MTTP)publication describes the unexploded explosive ordnance (UXO) threat and providesguidelines to minimize the impact of UXO hazards. It provides warfightingpersonnel at the operational and tactical levels with information to optimize UXOsafety and increase efficiency, while reducing or eliminating losses of personnel andequipment to UXO hazards..
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