ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. -- The Joint Munitions Command headquarters hosted the Conventional Ammunition Program's Objective Memorandum budget review with Department of the Army senior leaders, here, January 12 - 14.
Brig. Gen. Stephen E. Farmen, JMC commander, welcomed attendees and noted the budget review provides a good picture of the current status of the ammunition stockpile.
Farmen asked the attendees to review ammo products managed by JMC to best synchronize the Army's future requirements. What happens at this review is "incredibly important" to support the Army's priorities. "We have to make sure we provide ammo on time and on target."
The task of the annual budget review was to perform a line-by-line perspective of ammunition assets, compared to requirements, in supporting the program objective memorandum by predicting the funds needed for fiscal years 2018 to 2022.
Attendees included senior leaders from Department of Army's G3/4/8 staff, Assistant Secretary of Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology members, Army Materiel Command staff, Program Executive Office ammo representatives, ammunition program managers and JMC requirements planning teams.
The review was hosted by Stefani Minor, Director of JMC's Demand Planning and her staff. The review is the forum for the Joint Munitions Command item managers and PEO ammo product managers to present current inventory requirements and emerging considerations to support the Total Army Munitions requirements.
"The ammunition portfolio review provides the Army G-8 and our strategic partners in the ammunition enterprise an opportunity to ensure the Army's conventional ammunition program investment strategy remains aligned to support a balanced, rotational-focused, and surge-ready force while adjusting programs to the new fiscal environment," said Bobby Ransom, Headquarters, Department of the Army, G-8 office, Munitions Branch, Soldier and Maneuver Division, Force Development Directorate.
The importance of each participant's input during the review provided assistance in the decision making process as Department of the Army G-8 prepares to align funding with the Army G-3 office for approved Total Army Munitions requirements. The funding supports ammunition requirements for the Army, which also includes warfighting reserve, as well as training and test ammunition requirements. The review brought all the senior leaders and program managers together in one room to develop solutions as the ammunition enterprise works within continuing declining budgets.
In addition, information such as the ammunition stockpile status, substitutability and interchangeability issues, potential effects on inventory, supplemental funding, foreign military sales and industrial base concerns were addressed to determine the best possible decisions to support program funding requests.
"This is about readiness," concluded Farmen. "This is our number one priority. This is about the readiness we need to deliver the lethality necessary for our combatant commanders. From my team, the team of teams here, thank you for your efforts to get this right."
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. The primary mission of JMC is to manage the production, storage, issue, and demilitarization of conventional ammunition for all U.S. Military Services.
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