ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. -- The Joint Munitions Command headquarters hosted the Ammunition Program's Objective Memorandum budget review with Army senior leaders, here, January 13 - 15.
Brig. Gen. Kristin K. French, JMC commander, welcomed attendees and noted that the review "brings the ammo enterprise together to work the way ahead."
French asked the attendees to review approximately 426 ammo items to determine "where we need to go with ammunition support," and in addition, "how do we balance our requirements with our resources?"
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 demand planning and sustainment operations teams.
The review was chaired by Bobby Ransom, G-8 office, Munitions Branch, Soldier and Maneuver Division, Force Development Directorate.
"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 Ransom.
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 for fiscal years 2017 to 2021.
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.
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.
"This review," concluded Ransom, "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 which we will present to the equipping Program Executive Group."
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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