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Army

2024 ‘Critical’ Year for Army Munitions Ramp Up

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

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2024 ‘Critical’ Year for Army Munitions Ramp Up

Soldiers with the Carnage Battery, Field Artillery Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment conduct live-fire with an M777 towed 155 mm howitzer during Exercise Dynamic Front at Oksbol, Denmark on March 27 last year (U.S. Army Photo)

The planned 2024 effort to boost U.S. Army munitions' production will be vital to achieve a restocking of service inventory and to aid Ukraine, a top Army official said on Feb. 5. "This year is critical in terms of the actual ramp up happening," Army acquisition chief Doug Bush told a Center for Strategic and International Studies' forum in Washington, D.C. "We've doubled production since the [Ukraine] conflict started, but we have a long way to go." Bush emphasized that…

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