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Commissioner warns Army Transformation Initiative could cost Picatinny funding, jobs
Summary
Commissioner Christy Myers told the Morris County Board of Commissioners that the Army Transformation Initiative (ATI) under review could strip Picatinny Arsenal of munitions development and risk about $1 billion in funding and roughly 1,000 jobs, and that federal and county officials have sent letters urging reconsideration.
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Commissioner Christy Myers said Thursday that proposed changes under the Army Transformation Initiative could remove munitions development from Picatinny Arsenal’s existing integrated research-and-deployment structure, potentially reducing local funding and jobs.
Myers told the Morris County Board of Commissioners that the ATI would move the munitions piece “to center capability, executive offices,” rather than leave research, development and deployment together at Picatinny. “The result of that might be that we lose $1,000,000,000 in funding and a thousand jobs,” she said.
The county and federal…
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