WASHINGTON — The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will provide Anniston Army Depot with nearly $1 billion for five projects, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, announced this week.
The funding comes from the $150 billion allocated in the reconciliation bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law in July, for the Department of Defense.
“It was projects they’ve been needing for a while, and they’re big projects, ” Rogers, the House Armed Services chair, told Alabama Daily News. “It’s very important for that installation and its future.”
The $949.1 million for Anniston will go toward the following projects at the depot:
- Component Remanufacturing Facility: $495 million
- Small Arms Warehouse: $280.6 million
- Vehicle Paint Shop: $69.5 million
- Replace Buildings 293, 294, and 295: $60 million
- Guided Missile Maintenance Building: $44 million
The reconciliation funds also include $68 million for the design of the new Space Command Headquarters in Huntsville, according to Rogers’ office.
Rogers said he met with the commander of the Army Materiel Command on Tuesday to discuss additional projects he’d like to pursue at the eastern Alabama depot.
As the Army Transformation Initiative takes shape, the chairman hopes to capitalize on it to “revitalize” the organic defense industrial base, which consists of the U.S. Army’s depots and ammunition plants. Boosting the defense industrial base will also be a central tenet of next year’s National Defense Authorization Act.
“We have depots and arsenals all over the country that have just been under-resourced, and more importantly, they have not been configured for future production and work,” he told ADN.
The Army Transformation Initiative, announced in April by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, aims to create a “leaner, more lethal force” by cutting inefficient programs and reforming the acquisition process.
But Congress has yet to receive details from the Army on how it plans to implement the initiative, Rogers said. Lawmakers have been waiting for months to learn the information.
“You have to tell us specifically what you want this transformation to look like, so we can put the money and the authorization into these installations to prepare them for the future, for these future war-fighting capabilities, and their role in it,” Rogers said.
The chairman now expects to get the Army’s plans in the next three to four weeks, which he said will put “the meat on the bone.” Once the details are released, Rogers expects there to be more upgrades to Anniston.
“If you want it to become a reality, the sooner the better,” Rogers said, recounting his conversations Tuesday with Army generals about the transformation initiative.