JUST IN: Army Moving to Modernize Ammunition Plants
6/4/2019
By Yasmin Tadjdeh
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — The Army is working on a major effort to upgrade the service’s five government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition plants, said the senior commander of Picatinny Arsenal June 4.
The ammunition plants include Holston in Kingsport, Tennessee; Radford in Radford, Virginia; Lake City in Independence, Missouri; Iowa in Middleton, Iowa; and Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania, said Brig. Gen. Alfred Abramson, who also serves as the program executive officer for PEO armaments and ammunition.
Most of those facilities were built in the 1940s, he noted during remarks at the National Defense Industrial Association’s annual Armament Systems Forum in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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