Army Ordinance Department

On 1 September 1959, the Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Thermochemical Panel was formed under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Naval Weapons, Department of the Navy Office, Chief of Ordinance, Department of the Army Air Research and Development Command, Department of the Air Force and the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense. The panel operated in accordance with the Rules of Operations of Solid Propellant Panels as adopted by representatives of the above offices on 1 September 1959. 

As indicated earlier, the War Department set up a co-ordinating agency known as the Office of Gas Service in October 1917. This clearinghouse for chemical matters consisted of a director and representatives from the Ordnance and Medical Departments and from the Chemical Service Section of the National Army—a section established at the same time as the Gas Service with a principal mission of providing the AEF with a chemical laboratory. In February 1918 the Chemical Warfare Service and the Gas Division were joined in a move that failed to provide the administrative centralization and the prestige that could only come from the formation of an independent gas corps. This final step was taken bn 28 June 1918 with the creation of the Chemical Warfare Service, National Army, with Maj. Gen. William L. Sibert as director. 

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