Welcome to U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center
The U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center (USADAC) encompasses Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) G4 Logistics Review and Technical Assistance Office (LRTAO), the U.S. Army Technical Center for Explosives Safety (USATCES), and the Training Directorate’s Explosives Safety school. USADAC is the Army's sustainment think-tank and premier learning institution, delivering game-changing professionals and solutions.
USADAC is a Center for Excellence for Munitions and Explosives Safety. USADAC executes Army authority through policy development, technical assessment, and compliance, enabling Soldiers to aptly perform in the operational environment (e.g., large scale combat operations, multi-domain operations, and the Army ammunition and explosives enterprise). USADAC provides worldwide support with technical expertise and training for ammunition surveillance, logistics management, technical transportation of hazardous materials, and explosives safety for Department of Defense (DOD) military, civilian, and approved contractor personnel through mobile training teams, satellite training locations, and via distance learning.
To request a hard copy or PDF version of the Yellow Book, please email usarmy.mcalester.usamc.list.dac-yellowbook@army.mil.
Mission: USADAC executes Army authority through policy development, technical assessment, and compliance; USADAC trains explosives safety, ammunition surveillance, logistics management, and the technical transportation of hazardous materials; USADAC training prepares Soldiers to perform in the operational environment, e.g., large scale combat operations, multi-domain operations, and throughout the Army Enterprise.
Vision: USADAC is the Army integrator for explosives safety risk management, hazardous materials certification training, and supporting evolutionary changes in all disciplines of munitions safety, logistics management, quality assurance, as well as shaping explosives safety policy throughout the DoD and Other Government Agencies.