Congress has slashed procurement funding programs that will support the Army's new Extended Range Cannon Artillery and denied research money for a second increment of the howitzer in the recently passed omnibus appropriations bill . Almost all of the $8.4 million the Army requested in procurement funding for ERCA-specific supercharge and stub charge programs was cut in the omnibus appropriations bill. Fiscal year 2022 was the first time that each program was included in the Army budget. The charges were...
