GOCO Industry Day

Executive Summary The current operating strategy for Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated (GOCO) Army ammunition plants requires reassessment to ensure the Organic Industrial Base can meet future requirements for safety, responsiveness, capacity, modernization, supply-chain resilience, and affordable lifecycle performance. Traditional GOCO competition and contract approaches may not consistently create the incentives, flexibility, or accountability necessary to operate Government-owned facilities as modern and competitive manufacturing enterprises. In particular, existing approaches may overemphasize Government-directed workload and reimbursed facility operations rather than operator responsibility for productive utilization, maintenance, modernization, workforce development, workload capture, and operational performance. The Government is seeking industry input on a commercially disciplined GOCO operating model that preserves Government mission priorities while providing the operating contractor meaningful responsibility and flexibility to manage the facility as a competitive manufacturing enterprise. Under such a model, the contractor would be expected to sustain, modernize, maintain, and improve the facility through efficient operations, productive utilization, pursuit of approved workload, and sound business practices. The Government seeks to identify contracting, workload, risk-allocation, facility-use, oversight, intellectual-property, and performance-management constructs that will enable this model while preserving appropriate Government accountability, safety, security, and access to required production capacity. Portfolio Acquisition Executive Agile Sustainment & Ammunition (PAE AS&A) is assessing the future GOCO operating strategy before proceeding with future GOCO competitions. Purpose Army Contracting Command – Rock Island, on behalf of PAE AS&A, intends to host an Industry Day in November 2026 focused on transforming the operating strategy for GOCO Ar