# Arsenal Workload Sustainment Act

This bill is designed to keep military arsenals and weapons manufacturing facilities running at steady production levels to maintain America's defense capabilities. The core idea is that these facilities need consistent work orders and funding to stay operational and ready, rather than experiencing boom-and-bust cycles where production ramps up and down unpredictably.

The practical effect is that the bill likely establishes requirements or incentives for the Department of Defense to maintain regular purchasing and production schedules from military arsenals and manufacturing plants. This keeps skilled workers employed, maintains production expertise, and ensures that if the country needs to rapidly increase weapons production during a crisis, the infrastructure and workforce are already in place and practiced. Without this kind of sustained workload, facilities can lose experienced workers, equipment can become outdated, and it takes longer to ramp up production when needed.

For taxpayers, this means more consistent spending on military production rather than sporadic large purchases. For workers at military arsenals and defense contractors, it provides more job stability and predictable employment. For the military itself, it means having reliable access to weapons and ammunition production capacity without long delays. The bill essentially treats military manufacturing capacity like any other critical infrastructure that needs regular maintenance and use to stay effective.

Arsenal Workload Sustainment Act

Durbin, Richard J.

Arsenal Workload Sustainment ActThis bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to establish a five-year pilot program to give preference to any procurement action or solicitation with a non-public partner that uses a government-owned and operated arsenal of the Department of the Army in any type of contractual agreement with the government. Under the program, DOD must add 20% to the price of the bid of non-public partners that do not use a government-owned arsenal.DOD must also give preference to non-public partners that utilize the Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence of the Army and ensure not less than 25% of the activities under the partnership are performed by DOD employees.