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• W4386225101 abstract "For the past 60 years I have been on a journey through the world of energetics. But like all journeys it starts from home and for me that is in the United Kingdom. We have a proud tradition in synthesis, formulation, characterisation and application, and our understanding of the fundamental science provides a level of confidence that underpins everything we do in energetics. My journey started in the 60s in one the UK's major ordnance factories where most of the UK's triple based gun propellant and much of our double base rocket propellant was manufactured along with their main ingredients, nitrocellulose, nitroglycerine and nitroguanidine. Nearly all the UK ordnance and explosives needs were met by a network of government ordnance factories manufacturing everything from tanks, guns, and ammunition to nearly all the UK's propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics. Years of underinvestment in these facilities led them becoming inefficient and expensive and, in the 1990’s, resulted in their privatisation and ultimately to the closure of much of the UK's energetics manufacturing capacity. Underpinning the ordnance factories were an extensive network of government research and development establishments that played a major role in the design of ordnance systems and in the development of new materials and manufacturing processes. Many of these establishment were to either close or be privatised. The net effect was a major contraction in research and development capacity and capability. This impacted the UK university sector that had contributed much to the UK's fundamental explosives science capability. The throughput of research students was reduced as the contracting enterprise was not inclined to recruit. The overall effect of these changes was to significantly reduce the number of scientists and technologists working on energetics in the UK. This had an impact on the UK's ability to develop and maintain relevant standards and to regulate explosives safety given that the explosives safety organisations traditionally drew their expertise from that government network of factories and research establishments. Publications from the UK in this journal represented around 8 % of total publications twenty years ago, it is now just around 2 %. Other publications and conference proceedings have shown similar decline. As my generation retire and leave the stage there is a realisation, exacerbated by recent world events, that the health of our national energetics enterprise needs to be restored. A resurrection is underway with government, industry and academia coming together to rebuild our capability and capacity. Like all rebuilding, we need sound foundations which require people, technologies, knowledge, and facilities. A Centre of Excellence in Energetic Materials (CoEEM) has been created by key national stakeholders with the explicit aims to provide, firstly, top level leadership to the UK energetics community and secondly, to build the depth of expertise, and hence critical mass of people, to support the country's energetics enterprise. Good progress has been made with a strategic panel from government providing direction and oversight of the Centre's activities. A technical director and technical leads have been appointed to cover all the key specialisms required by a healthy energetics enterprise. These include groups working on synthesis, formulations, processing, manufacture as well as characterisation, detonics, modelling and hazard testing. Each technical lead has a clear set of deliverables as agreed by the strategic panel of CoEEM. With regards the development of people, a Sector Skills Strategy Group comprising corporate members from the UK's Institute of Explosives Engineering is leading on the development and sustaining explosive skills at all levels. Undergraduate programmes, apprenticeships, and postgraduate programmes are in place to rebuild that critical mass of people. Recruitment of new blood is underway but retention is an issue. Experience must be built, so it is important that we keep the people we recruit by offering exciting and interesting jobs, competitive remuneration, and career prospects. We need to grow, not just the numbers of people, but to accumulate the experience required by the sector. It is imperative that we recruit and retain the brightest and best. All if this requires money. Our industrial capacity needs to be restored and both industry and government are responding to the investment challenges required. New technology is being embraced as are new ways of working to get things back on track. Building the sound science and technology base also requires investment in equipment, laboratories, and test and evaluation infrastructure. Universities also need to respond and need new funding sources to build their teaching and research activities. There have been some advances, but more is needed. Overall, UK energetics has turned a corner from years of decline towards a resurrection. My hope is that this is manifested in an increase of quality submissions to this journal. I'm excited by the prospect." @default.
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• W4386225101 title "A national imperative – rebuilding energetic materials science and technology capability" @default.
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