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and MJU-10 countermeasure flares when the items were in short supply. The CM Flare team established procedures and processes that allowed contractors to meet vital product delivery schedules to the Air Force and Army in support of urgent requirements. Through aggressive management, sufficient stocks were built allowing assets to be placed in depot rather than being shipped directly from the contractor to theater via air transportation. This turnaround took place in October 2007 and has continued to the present. Grenades In support of OEF/OIF, the LCMC adjusted acquisition strategies for grenades. The grenades program includes lethal grenades such as the M67 Fragmentation Hand Grenade and the AN-M14 Incendiary Grenade as well as multiple color smoke grenades (M18), screening smoke grenades (M83), and vehicle launched smoke grenades (M90, M76, and M82). The M67 systems contract established an additional CONUS source for the C70 detonator where only a single overseas (OCONUS) source had existed before. At the request of the Army, PM CCS expedited the incorporation of the confidence clip into new production as well as the existing inventory of lethal hand grenades to make the grenade safer for Soldiers to use. Vehicle Protection Systems The JM&L LCMC also provided logistical and sustainment support for the various CLASS V vehicle protection systems to include Bradley I/II, Stryker I/II, Abrams I/II, and Assault Breacher Vehicle. The team supported production management planning for the Bradley, Abrams, and Stryker tiles which were in development or had ongoing contract deliveries. Key areas of emphasis included coordinating NSN/DODIC assignment and deployment planning for BRAT II tiles as well as preproduction planning, materiel release documentation, and storage site assignment for Stryker II. Today’s Industrial Base Many of the Army‟s ammunition production facilities are still owned by the government and operated by contractors, with the exception of two that are government-owned and operated: Crane Army Ammunition Activity and McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. Due to 2005 BRAC actions Kansas AAP, Lone Star AAP, Mississippi AAP, Riverbank AAP, Red River Munitions Center (complete in 2011), the current list of active JMC production and storage sites that make up the U.S. Army ammunition industrial base is as follows: Anniston Munitions Center, Anniston, Alabama Blue Grass Army Depot, Richmond, Kentucky Crane Army Ammunition Activity, Crane, Indiana Hawthorne Army Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Kingsport, Tennessee Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Middletown, Iowa. Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, Independence, Missouri Letterkenny Munitions Center, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, Texarkana, Texas McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, McAlester, Oklahoma Milan Army Ammunition Plant, Milan, Tennessee Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Radford, Virginia Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, Scranton, Pennsylvania 64
Tooele Army Depot, Tooele, Utah Red River Munitions Center, Texarkana, Texas – Scheduled to close in 2011 Quad City Cartridge Case Facility, Rock Island Arsenal, IL – Scheduled to open in 2012 Defense Ammunition Center, McAlester, OK – Ammunition Knowledge and Logistics Support mission An economically configured ammunition production base capable of supporting war reserve, training, and emergency requirements is essential. The Army is committed to improving the utilization and efficiency of the Defense Industrial Base. The FY07 PB funding supported production base modernization improvements at Radford, Holston, and Lake City Army Ammunition Plants (AAPs). Further, funding supports Government Owned, Contractor Operated (GOCO) AAPs and critical machine tooling for the private sector. Investments at the three Army Working Capital Fund (AWCF) ammunition installations are included in the price of ammunition. Supplemental funding is required to support critical industrial base improvements required to support increased GWOT, training, and modularity ammunition production requirements. 179 A 2007 SMCA/PEO Ammunition Integrated Process Team (IPT) identified over 100 core ammunition process capabilities. Fifty-one of the core processes were judged to be unique Single Point Processes with capabilities not found at other facilities within the National Industrial Technology Base (NTIB). Many core processes were found to be in need of critical modernization and right sizing efforts. Processes included Milan AAP‟s 40mm ammunition and the fuze capabilities, Crane AAA‟s demolition block line, many of the Pine Bluff ammunition capabilities including illuminating mortar and artillery lines, the infrared (IR) mortar lines and the smoke grenade lines. The Iowa AAP‟s tank training ammunition production capability and many of the McAlester AAP‟s bomb lines are core processes. Holston AAP propellants and explosives capabilities for RDX and HMX are core processes with Single Point Process capabilities not found at other facilities within the NTIB. The IPT also studied “actual” plant capability and capacity utilization rates for the period of FY01 to FY03, and "projected" plant capability and capacity utilization rates for the period FY04 through FY06. A significant number of the plant utilization rates were found to be less than 50%, some were found to be as low as 10% at Lone Star and Kansas AAP facilities. Two of the core processes found at Radford and Lake City AAPs were found to have utilization rates above 60%, one had a utilization rate of 95%. Many of the core processes were also found to be in need of critical modernizations. They included the Radford AAP nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin processes, Lake City AAP small caliber ammunition lines and many of the facility infrastructure assets and steam plants. 180 In FY09, JMC and PM Joint Services submitted over $200 million in infrastructure efforts to DA in support of a potential stimulus package requested by President Barrack Obama. Projects identified were extracted from the FY 10-15 Production Base Support Industrial Facilities program. Additionally, the Installation Management‟s Command‟s (IMCOM) list of Military Construction Army (MCA) projects totaling $2.2 billion which includes projects from JMC installations was also submitted for consideration. The JMC‟s MLRC directorate 179 AFSC/JMC History Office. “FY05 Program Executive Office for Ammunition AHS,” AFSC/JMC FY05 Annual Command History. 180 Ibid. 65
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