Army seeks $1.5 billion to bolster munitions industrial base in FY-24 request

By Dan Schere / March 13, 2023 at 3:36 PM
The Army is including $1.5 billion in its fiscal year 2024 budget request to support the organic industrial base for the production and resupply of critical munitions. The service released its $185 billion FY-24 budget request on Monday, a slight decrease from the enacted $191.1 billion budget for FY-23, but an increase from the Biden administration’s FY-23 request of $177.5 billion. Army officials outlined the need for the defense industrial base to ramp up production of munitions and weapons as...

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