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The effort has shone a light on the Army\u2019s inventory and the age of its organic industrial base, revealing areas that require reinforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service is also assessing its stockpile requirements as it works to rapidly replenish supplies in preparation for the possibility of facing more than one major global contingency simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense News spoke with Doug Bush, the Army acquisition chief, in an interview ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s annual conference. He discussed how the service is trying to bolster its industrial base to restore vital stockpiles that would allow it to continue to support partners and allies, as well as how the service is preparing for future warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This interview was edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>What is the state of the Army\u2019s effort to stand up new production capacity for 155mm ammunition, among other materiel, as it seeks to replenish its stocks?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next year, we\u2019re going to know a lot more about how we\u2019re doing. But the artillery production \u2014 in October, we\u2019re going to get to 28,000 a month. That\u2019s double from where we were in January when we first got the money. And then the path \u2014 [William] LaPlante, [the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment], mentioned this, too \u2014 is to get to around 60,000 a month in fiscal 2024, and then getting to around 80,000 a month in fiscal 2025. And then in early FY26, the goal is still 100,000 a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We still need some additional resources. We\u2019re working on it now internally and with Congress, and feeling pretty good about it. We have a plan, we\u2019re getting the money. The hard part is actually doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But our various industry partners know what they\u2019re doing. We\u2019ve got the right oversight mechanisms in place to make sure we can keep a thumb on things. And we\u2019ll see what Congress says about, for example, the PAC-3 [Missile Segment Enhancement] funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>How is the building of new facilities coming along that can produce additional 155mm shells for deeper magazines?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The construction activities in Mesquite, Texas, east of Dallas, [are] underway. If you went there now, you would see a lot of construction activity, concrete being poured. So things are on track, but [General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems is] not producing there yet. Production equipment starts coming later in the year, and production will actually start next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a similar story at IMT in Canada. [The company is] still on track to start up initial production early next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those are our two for big metal parts. Really, we only have two facilities now in Pennsylvania to do that. We\u2019re going to add two completely new factories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming along beside that is additional capacity to load the shells with explosives. That\u2019s currently done in Iowa. We\u2019re already on contract to increase that capacity in Kansas and Arkansas, so all those things are moving along rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of scale, the Texas activity is much larger, but both are important. We need improvements in Pennsylvania, we need the Canada thing and we need Texas to all succeed to hit the ramp we are on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>What other single sources of failure within the industrial base \u2014 both organic and across the defense sector \u2014 have you worried? What are you doing to resolve any issues?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[In some instances], we don\u2019t have a plan for making sure we have multiple sources. That\u2019s the whole idea behind the additional load and assemble pack capacity. Iowa is very important, and we\u2019re expanding it, but we need redundancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same goes for metal parts. It\u2019s why we were confronted early on with: OK, do we just massively expand the locations we have, or do we place multiple bets in multiple places? And we went with the latter approach. We thought that was lower risk, even if it\u2019s a little more expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the artillery side, we are very carefully studying that question. 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