John McGuiness is President of Day & Zimmermann's Munitions and Government business and a member of the company's corporate leadership committee. Prior to assuming this role, John was the President of American Ordnance, a Day & Zimmermann company, since June of 2016. General McGuiness completed a distinguished 31 year career in the Army culminating as the Commanding General of Picatinny Arsenal and the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Officer for Ammunition, being designated as the DoD Single Manager of Conventional Ammunition. In this role, he led an 1100 person organization responsible for the development and fielding of high tech military systems by managing over 600 distinct ammunition, counter IED, artillery and mortar programs with an annual budget of $3.5B.
