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Bush: New Supplemental Doubled Army’s Request For Boosting 155mm Ammo Production

Bush: New Supplemental Doubled Army’s Request For Boosting 155mm Ammo Production
Ammo handler at Blue Grass Army Depot prepares 155mm projectile rounds for repalletization. Photo by Dori Whipple, Blue Grass Army Depot

The recently passed supplemental funding bill included around $6 billion to boost 155mm artillery ammunition production, double what the Army had requested as the service pushes to build 100,000 such rounds per month by late 2025. Doug Bush, the Army’s acquisition chief, told reporters on Thursday that Congress fully funded the service’s requested projects for its munitions ramp up efforts and that the additional funding lawmakers added in the supplemental will allow production lines to sustain a rate of 100,000…

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