{"id":50270,"date":"2026-07-14T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2026\/07\/14\/manufacturing-woes-hamper-us-155-mm-ammo-production\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:22:14","slug":"manufacturing-woes-hamper-us-155-mm-ammo-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2026\/07\/14\/manufacturing-woes-hamper-us-155-mm-ammo-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing woes hamper US 155-mm ammo production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manufacturing problems are dashing the U.S. Army\u2019s plans to boost production of urgently needed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2023\/04\/23\/why-the-155mm-round-is-so-critical-to-the-war-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2023\/04\/23\/why-the-155mm-round-is-so-critical-to-the-war-in-ukraine\/\">155-mm howitzer shells<\/a>, a Pentagon watchdog warned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite a goal of 100,000 rounds per month by October 2025, the Army had only managed to produce 36,000 rounds per month as of March 2026, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodig.mil\/reports.html\/Article\/4540250\/evaluation-of-the-dows-capability-and-capacity-to-produce-155-millimeter-artill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dodig.mil\/reports.html\/Article\/4540250\/evaluation-of-the-dows-capability-and-capacity-to-produce-155-millimeter-artill\/\">report published this month<\/a> by the Department of Defense Inspector General. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shell production requires first building the projectile at a metal parts factory, followed by packing the shell with explosives at another facility. But this means \u201cprojectile metal part production is the limiting factor for reaching the 100,000 round-per-month goal for 155-mm artillery rounds,\u201d the report noted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army has not been able to forge enough metal parts to ramp up production of projectiles. In particular, \u201cat a contractor-owned, contractor-operated facility in Mesquite, Texas, the contractor has been unable to produce any projectile metal parts that meet contract specifications,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After investing $469 million, the Army opened a modular metal parts factory in Mesquite, Texas in 2024. The Universal Artillery Projectile Lines facility \u2014 operated by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems \u2014 was supposed to use \u201cmodern manufacturing practices, high levels of automation and digital data capture ability\u201d to forge large numbers of large-caliber metal parts for shells, the Army announced at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That optimism proved premature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials at the Army\u2019s Capability Program Executive Ammunition &amp; Energetics, or CPE A&amp;E, \u201cissued the contract and accepted the risk associated with purchasing and adapting unique production equipment which had not been proven to meet U.S. specifications,\u201d the IG report said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To save time, the Mesquite factory tried to adapt manufacturing lines originally designed to make parts for the M107 155-mm shell \u2014 which dates back to 1958 \u2014 rather than the newer M795. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CPE A&amp;E \u201caccepted the risk associated with the contractor\u2019s plan to purchase and adapt M107 metal part production equipment to produce a newer variant of the 155-mm projectile metal parts at different specifications,\u201d said the report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report noted that some Army officials had concerns regarding an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/global\/the-americas\/2024\/08\/28\/us-army-ammo-plant-boosts-artillery-shell-production-for-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/global\/the-americas\/2024\/08\/28\/us-army-ammo-plant-boosts-artillery-shell-production-for-ukraine\/\">older ammunition plant<\/a> in Scranton, Pennsylvania, that included \u201cseparate ongoing problems with the contractor in terms of responsiveness, equipment maintenance, and timeliness. Those officials expressed concern to the evaluation team that ACC [Army Contracting Command] did not open the contract for the Mesquite facility to competition from other contractors.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bottleneck at the Mesquite plant left the Army\u2019s three existing plants in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Ingersoll, Canada, to try to pick up the slack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid voracious expenditure of 155-mm rounds by Ukraine that depleted U.S. stockpiles, DoD issued a congressionally-mandated plan in 2022 to modernize howitzer ammunition production. DoD\u2019s 2025 National Defense Industrialization Strategy Implementation Plan aimed at churning out 100,000 155-mm shells per month by October 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army\u2019s efforts have borne some fruit, with production nearly tripling to 14,000 shells per month to 36,000. 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