
The Pentagon’s push to produce 100,000 155mm artillery rounds per month by late 2025 remains on track, the department’s acquisition chief has said. “We’re going to get to 100,000 [rounds per month]. We’re on track to get there,” Bill LaPlante, under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, told reporters following remarks at NDIA’s Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference & Exhibition in Washington, D.C. “What happens is, like anything else, as you reach the next milestone you say, ‘What’s the…