Senate authorizers want Army to address munitions supply chain chokepoints

By Nickolai Sukharev / July 12, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Senate authorizers want the Army to provide options to establish secondary domestic production sources within the service's manufacturing base to address chokepoints in the ammunition supply chain. Written into the final defense authorization bill by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) and Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS), the panel is asking the Army secretary to submit a plan that would provide “options to establish secondary domestic production sources at existing arsenals, depots, and ammunition plants of the Army...

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