Troy Meink: “This budget leverages existing commercial production…”

“Second, production, particularly of munitions. While we retain enough munitions worldwide to meet mission needs, we need strong factory lines to sustain and bolster our stockpiles. Therefore, This budget leverages existing commercial production capacity and takes full advantage of multi year procurement for our most critical munitions. Totaling 39,000 weapons of all types by FY33. We are also developing weapons almost as capable as our high ammunitions, but at a fraction of the cost and with much higher production rates.” (02:53–03:01)

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