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Joint Munitions Command (JMC)
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Active 2003 – present
Country United States
Type Major Subordinate Command of the United States Army Materiel Command (AMC)
Role Operate a nationwide network of facilities where conventional ammunition is produced and stored.
Size Employs 20 military, over 5800 civilians and 8300 contractor personnel
Garrison/HQ Rock Island Arsenal
Colors red, yellow, white, black, blue
Website www.jmc.army.mil
Commanders
Current
commander
[1] Brig. Gen. Kevin G. O'Connell

The Joint Munitions Command (JMC) is the latest in a series of commands since World War II that have managed the nation's ammunition plants. Since 1973, those commands have been headquartered on Rock Island Arsenal. Brig. Gen. Kevin G. O'Connell commands the JMC. The headquarters on Rock Island Arsenal is responsible for munitions production (ammunition plants) and storage (depots) facilities in 16 states. JMC employs 20 military, over 5800 civilians and 8300 contractor personnel. Of these approximately 14,000 personnel, 738 work in the headquarters on Rock Island Arsenal. JMC has an annual budget of 1.7 billion dollars.

JMC provides bombs and bullets to America's fighting forces – all services, all types of conventional ammo from 2,000-pound bombs to rifle rounds. JMC manages plants that produce more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition annually and the depots that store the nation's ammunition for training and combat. It is responsible for the management and accountability of $26 billion of conventional munitions and stores $39 billion of missiles.

The JM&L LCMC is one of four life cycle management commands in the Army. Its role is to integrate significant elements of acquisition, logistics, and technology, fostering a closer relationship between the JMC, Program Executive Office-Ammunition and the Army Research Development and Engineering Center. The JM&L LCMC, headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, and has a 10-person staff that integrates the efforts of PEO-Ammunition, JMC, and ARDEC. JMC has a partnership with the ARDEC and PEO-Ammunition to manage ammunition over its life cycle. ARDEC, which is headquartered in New Jersey and has an office on Rock Island Arsenal, is the research and development arm. PEO-Ammunition and its project managers are the ammunition life cycle managers and are responsible for acquisition of ammunition. JMC manages the ammunition plants and has the responsibility for storing and shipping the ammunition to wherever in the world it is needed. JMC is the logistics arm of the JM&L LCMC.

JMC Locations[]

JMC operates a nationwide network of installations and facilities where conventional ammunition is produced and stored.

Production and Storage

Installation Location
Crane Army Ammunition Activity Crane, Indiana
McAlester Army Ammunition Plant McAlester, Oklahoma

Production

Installation Location
Holston Army Ammunition Plant Kingsport, Tennessee
Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Middletown, Iowa
Lake City Army Ammunition Plant Independence, Missouri
Milan Army Ammunition Plant Milan, Tennessee
Pine Bluff Arsenal Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Radford Army Ammunition Plant Radford, Virginia
Scranton Army Ammunition Plant Scranton, Pennsylvania

Storage

Installation Location
Anniston Munitions Center Anniston, Alabama
Blue Grass Army Depot Richmond, Kentucky
Hawthorne Army Depot Hawthorne, Nevada
Letterkenny Munitions Center Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Tooele Army Depot Tooele, Utah

Training and Special Services

Installation Location
Defense Ammunition Center McAlester, Oklahoma

While all JMC facilities are government-owned, contractors operate the 10 production-only facilities and Hawthorne Army Depot.

BRAC[]

The following installations closed on or before 2011 as part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission findings

Installation Location
Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant Texarkana, Texas
Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant Riverbank, California
Red River Munitions Center Texarkana, Texas
  • Information compiled from [1]

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