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Push To Build 100,000 155mm Artillery Shells Per Month Remains ‘On Track,’ LaPlante Says

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Push To Build 100,000 155mm Artillery Shells Per Month Remains ‘On Track,’ LaPlante Says
Ammo handler at Blue Grass Army Depot prepares 155mm projectile rounds for repalletization. Photo by Dori Whipple, Blue Grass Army Depot

The Pentagon’s push to produce 100,000 155mm artillery rounds per month by late 2025 remains on track, the department’s acquisition chief has said. “We’re going to get to 100,000 [rounds per month]. We’re on track to get there,” Bill LaPlante, under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, told reporters following remarks at NDIA’s Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference & Exhibition in Washington, D.C. “What happens is, like anything else, as you reach the next milestone you say, ‘What’s the…

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