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developed and supported the briefing package to the Chief of Staff, Army for an industrial base modernization plan on 13 December 2008. The CSA supported the plan and committed a funding stream to execute the plan. The plan provides for safe, environmentally-improved, properly sized and efficient facilities. Summary The history of the ammunition industrial base has provided lessons and generated many studies into how to obtain a right-sized base. Long lead times at the outbreak of war have shown that it is essential to maintain necessary funding for a warm base. This paper has traced the evolution of the industrial base from creation to present day to provide a comprehensive look at many of the challenges and initiatives made to correct deficiencies for ammunition. A discussion on the emergence and operation of the SMCA provided a brief background on Army‟s management of conventional ammunition. Important information on the depot system designed to store conventional ammunition is not included. As ordnance leaders and studies indicated, the ammunition base lacked necessary maintenance and modernization funding during peacetime in order to maintain a properly sustained warm base. As technology and modernization have created more advanced production capabilities and threats of world wars have diminished, the Army has become adept with a smaller base and improved acquisition strategies to integrate commercial producers in times of urgent need. As requirements decreased and budgets were cut at the end of the Cold War, the Army and ammunition community evolved to meet the changing dynamics of modern needs. The industrial base must remain flexible, adaptable, and responsive. The transition to precision guided munitions (PGM) and accuracy on the battlefield lead the future, but still requires core processes in the industrial base. Conventional ammunition is a commodity that will remain an essential part of ammunition supply and must be properly funded to rapidly meet requirements. A great deal of responsibility has been placed upon the new life cycle management structures to maintain and improve an industrial base that is strong enough to meet any requirements. Management of the ammunition life cycle will continue to streamline production, acquisition, and logistics in the ammunition industrial base. The ammunition community continues to think critically about excess production capacity and idle facilities at the remaining government ammunition plants. The latest BRAC 2005 round has closed an additional five sites, reducing the total number of Army ammunition production facilities to twelve, three depots, and 2 munitions centers in 2011. As discussed, The JM&L LCMC, JMC, PEO AMMO, and ARDEC are implementing new acquisition strategies and utilizing new management/measurement tools to ensure that requirements and surge capabilities can be met. The possibility of further ammunition base funding cutbacks will be imminent in the future if assumptions are based on historical patterns. Ammunition funding must remain constant in the minds of decision makers and leaders to avoid ammunition shortages in the event of future contingencies. 66
APPENDIX A - WWII AMMUNITION PLANTS 181 DATE APPROVED NAME & LOCATION PRODUCT OPERATING 10 April 1942 Allegany Ord. Plant - Cumberland, MD 23 Jan 1941 Alabama Ord. Works #1 - Sylacauga, AL 30 June 1941 Alabama Ord. Works #2 Sylacauga, AL 19 July 1941 Arkansas Ordnance Plant – Jacksonville, Arkansas 1 Feb 1942 Badger Ordnance Works – Badger, WI 23 Oct 1943 Baytown Ord. Works – Baytown, TX 11 Feb 1942 Bluebonnet Ord. Plant – McGregor, TX 13 Dec. 1941 Buckeye Ord. Works – South Point, OH 14 Sep. 1953 Cactus Ord. Works – Dumas, TX 10 July 1942 Cherokee Ord. Works – Danville, PA 26 Jan 1942 Chickasaw Ord. Works – Millington, TN 20 Feb. 1941 Coosa River Ord. Works – Talladega, AL 3 Mar. 1942 Cornhusker Ord. Plant – Grand Island, NE 12 Aug. 1942 Dixie Ord. Works – Sterlinton, LA 18 July 1941 Des Moines Ord. Plant – Des Moines, IA 10 Dec. 1940 Denver Ordnance Plant - Denver, CO 16 Oct 1942 Detroit Cup Plant – Detroit, MI 6 Oct 1941 East Tennessee Ord. Works – Copperhill, TN 21 Sept. 1940 Eau Claire Ord. Works - Eau Claire, WI 21 Sept 1942 Elwood Ord. Plant – Joliet, IL .30 cal Armor Piercing Ammunition Smokeless Powder, DPA, DNA Bellite, DNT, Tetryl, Oleum, TNT Fuze, Prime., Per., Elate. Det., Delay Smokeless Powder, Oleum, E.C. Pwder Tolunul CONTRACTOR Kelly Springfield Engineering Company E.I. Dupont de Memours & Co. Military Explosives Division E.I. Dupont de Memours & Co. Military Explosives Division Ford , Bacon & Davis, Inc. Hercules Powder Co. Humble Oil Ref. Co. Shells, Bomb Cluster, National Gypsum Co. Demolition Blocks, Bombs Anhydrous Ammonia Atmospheric Nitrogen Corp. C-3 Shell Union Oil Corp. Formaldehyde & Hexamine TNT, DNT, Smokeless Powder Bag & Igniter Loading, Rockets Bomb & Shell Loading Heyden Chemical Co. E.I. Dupont de Memours & Co. Military Explosives Division The Brecon Loading Co. Quaker Oats Ord. Corp. Anhydrous Ammonia Commercial Solvents Corp. Small Arms Ammo, .30 & U.S. Robber Co. .50 cal .30 cal ammo Remington Arms Co. .30 cal steel cartridge case cups Oleum Parker-Wolverine Co.- Ordnance Division Tennessee Copper Co. .30 cal incendiary and ball U.S. Rubber Co. Shell & Bomb Loading, Sanderson & Porter primers, detonators, fuzes & boosters, amatol & ammonium nitrate .30 cal carbine & .45 cal Chrysler Corporation & Sunbeam Electic Mf. Co. 13 March 1942 Evansville Ord. Plant – Evansville, IN 1 Oct 1940 Gadsden Ord. Plant – Shell Forging and Lansdowne Steel & iron 181 This list is representative of the majority of ammunition plants that operated during the WWII. Data obtained from a 1944 Field Director of Ammunition Plants (FDAP) Data of Ammunition Plants List & Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Ammunition Plant Directory (DA, Office of the Chief of Ordnance: 1946) passim. 67
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