With $70.5 billion in the FY27 budget request for munitions, a handful of analysts said they expect the Pentagon to spread the funding over several years and to fuel multiyear buys.
While Gen. Dan Caine said the US has "sufficient precision munitions for the task at hand," lawmakers are considering a high-dollar supplemental infusion to backfill missile supplies.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping adversarial cyber operations at machine speed, requiring defenders to increase operational tempo while imposing pain and cost.
A structured Surge Inventory Purchase Vehicle could be the key to ensuring America’s inventory stays stocked and ready for wartime, writes John Ferrari in this op-ed.
“We won't hesitate to come forward and ask for what we need to make sure that we maintain our stocks,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told senators today.
"We were pretty early in the Netherlands I think to order extra [ammunition], but you see what is happening," she said. "We're all standing in line at the at the ammunition factories."