Based on the Navy’s current planned purchase of weapons and future warfighting contingency planning, the service could experience a shortfall across a host of munitions supplies starting around 2020, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert, said Tuesday.The Navy’s current stockpiles of weapons are sufficient to meet existing requirements, but with budget reductions and other priorities like shipbuilding the service has had to accept some risk in later years, based on envisioned requirements, he said.“It’s not a good picture,” Greenert…
