:

Army

Army’s New Ammo Production Modernization Plan Will Look To Transform Facilities

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020

SHARE:

Army’s New Ammo Production Modernization Plan Will Look To Transform Facilities

Lake City Army Ammunition Plant In Missouri

The Army’s review of its $16 billion ammunition production modernization plan will include overhauling the effort to focus on transforming facilities around open architecture designs to allow for more modular manufacturing practices and pathways to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers for critical materials, officials said Tuesday. The service’s ammo production path forward will include a short-term plan that aims to make facilities safer over the next five years and before releasing a new longer-term, 15-year plan that will require the…

Congress

Senior GOP HASC Members Wittman, Turner Ousted Amid Dems’ Blue Wave

Two senior Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, including a potential frontrunner for the panel’s top GOP role, have officially lost their reelection bids. Reps. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) and […]

Congress

Dems’ Big Night Set To Reshape Top Defense Committee Spots, As Key GOP’ers Knocked Off

Democrats’ sweeping victories in Tuesday’s midterms, taking back control of the House and Senate, are set to reshape key spots atop defense committees, to include House Armed Services panels and […]

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]