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S army technical center for explosive safety usatces and the department of defense explosives safety board ddesb. Defense ammunition center course activation announcement course number. The ddesbs riskbased explosives siting tool will be incorporated as a module of the ess software tool by october. The ess software contains planning and analytical tools for assisting with the development of site plan packages.
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