The Army commands in charge of acquisition and modernization are taking it day-by-day as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens in the United States, but so far see minimal impact to production lines and modernization efforts underway.

“The Army has been very carefully looking at our industrial base and our ability to maintain programs, both for continued readiness and continued modernization, and, in general, we are still remaining fairly close to being on track,” Bruce Jette, the Army’s acquisition chief, told reports in an April 3 teleconference.

“That doesn’t mean that individual programs or individual issues haven’t arisen, but, at this point, we have, we think, in the long run, we can resolve any of the challenges we have at hand,” he added.

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