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Bush: Army Needs $3.1 Billion In Supplemental Request To Meet 155mm Ammo Production Goals

Bush: Army Needs $3.1 Billion In Supplemental Request To Meet 155mm Ammo Production Goals
Ammo handler at Blue Grass Army Depot prepares 155mm projectile rounds for repalletization. Photo by Dori Whipple, Blue Grass Army Depot

The Biden administration’s emergency supplemental spending request includes $3.1 billion to boost 155mm artillery ammunition production, which a top Army official has said is needed to ensure the service can meet its aim to build 100,000 such rounds per month by late 2025. “Congress, to their credit, has already been very generous and they’ve really given us a path to 75,000-80,000 [155mm rounds] per month. We need this additional funding to get over 100,000 [rounds] a month,” Doug Bush, the…

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