Congress is concerned about the Army procuring energetic materials outside the United States, but that's the way it's always been done, argued Doug Bush, the service's previous acquisition chief, before he left office. “We’ve never had a model where we exclusively rely on our government-owned plants for energetics,” Bush told Inside Defense Jan. 16. The organic industrial base is at maximum capacity at every one of its ammunition plants; lawmakers want to expand that capacity and have been “extremely...
