CMAC recognizes the vital importance of maintaining a high-quality demining capacity through quality training and research and development (R&D) activities. In today's ever-evolving mine action environment, CMAC regards R&D as an essential component of its mine action efforts, as it has played a crucial role in contributing to the achievements of landmine/ERW clearance in the Kingdom of Cambodia. Without R&D, the clearance process would have been unacceptably slow, potentially dangerous, and inefficient.
One of the most significant impacts of R&D has been the advancement of demining tools and equipment, such as mine detection machines, demining machines, and brush cutter machines, among others. This has significantly enhanced safety, productivity, and efficiency in the mine action sector. Therefore, CMAC has maintained its R&D efforts to develop cutting-edge demining tools and equipment, which has yielded positive results.
There are two evaluation facilities for Research & Development (R&D) in Kampong Chhnang and Siem Reap.
To this end, CMAC is currently conducting R&D on eight different studies, namely the Demining Robot-5 (DMR-5), training on the Advanced Landmine Imaging System (ALIS) to SESU of Ukraine, internal training on the use and maintenance of ALIS, a study on the use and maintenance of Germany Vallon VMH3, Evaluation on ALIS in Ukraine, Operational Testing of Drone dji Mavic 3pro, Operational Testing of Vallon Ferrous Locator VXT1, and Brush Cutter Maintenance.
