Troy Meink: “We retain enough munitions worldwide to meet mission needs.”

“To reverse this, the FY27 budget requests roughly doubles investments in both MILCON and facilities sustainment restoration and modernization, which we will couple with the new authorities such as Progressive Design Build that we've gotten from Congress. Second, production, particularly of munitions. We retain enough munitions worldwide to meet mission needs. We strongly need factory lines to sustain that and bolster our stockpiles. Therefore, this budget takes full advantage of multi year procurement for our most critical munitions, totaling 39,000 weapons of all types by FY33.” (21:08–21:12)

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