Joint Munitions Command staff meet to discuss ammo workload requirements

By Mr. Tony Lopez (AMC)March 27, 2015

Joint Munitions Command staff meet to discuss ammo workload requirements
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ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. -- Joint Munitions Command staff, and its Department of Defense partners, met here at the JMC headquarters, March 24 - 25, to discuss projected ammunition workload requirements.

More than 80 senior representatives attended from organizations that included; Army Aviation and Missile Command, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, Program Executive Office - Ammunition, the Marine Corps, the Navy, the Air Force and eight of JMC's subordinate installation sites.

Brig. Gen. Kristin K. French, JMC commander, welcomed the attendees and thanked them for their participation.

"The purpose of this event is to discuss the workload as an enterprise," she said. "The intent is to look at ourselves as an ammo enterprise and balance the workload across all our sites. We've got to be open and discuss our core competencies at each site and make sure we are focusing on those as we work the way ahead."

JoEtta Fisher, director of JMC's Supply Planning Directorate and her staff hosted the two-day event.

"The purpose is to partner with our customers to gain a thorough understanding of all requirements, as we prepare our upcoming budgets," Fisher said.

Day one of the agenda included overview briefings of ammunition logistics, production and demilitarization trends from JMC headquarters staff and workload owners. In addition, time was provided for installation commanders to discuss any specific workload concerns. Day two consisted of individual breakout sessions to discuss fiscal years' 2016 and 2017 workload projections.

"There is a lot going on in the munitions community," French concluded. "We are experiencing both declining requirements and declining resources across our JMC enterprise because of the environment we are in."

JMC produces small-, medium- and large-caliber ammunition items for the Department of Defense. JMC is the logistics integrator for life-cycle management of ammunition and provides a global presence of technical support to U.S. combat units wherever they are stationed or deployed. JMC's logistics operation is unique to the Department of Defense and its industrial base is an important asset in supporting the Warfighter.

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