{"id":12005,"date":"2023-03-21T08:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=12005"},"modified":"2023-03-21T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T11:40:36","slug":"eua-programa-plurianual-para-garantizar-el-abastecimiento-de-misiles-de-uso-aereo-y-naval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=12005","title":{"rendered":"EUA, programa plurianual para garantizar el abastecimiento de misiles de uso a\u00e9reo y naval"},"content":{"rendered":"

La experiencia obtenida del conflicto en Ucrania por la invasi\u00f3n rusa, ha motivado que las autoridades de la US Air Force y US Navy, obtengan la asignaci\u00f3n de importantes recursos presupuestarios, para implementar un Programa Plurianual que asegure las capacidades de producci\u00f3n y abastecimiento de munici\u00f3n de grandes sistemas de armas, como es el caso de los misiles de uso A\u00e9reo y Naval, para las citadas fuerzas. Solo para el 2024 se prev\u00e9n US$ 30.600 Millones para la producci\u00f3n de Misiles y US$ 1.000 Millones para mejoras en la Base Industrial de Producci\u00f3n, de las empresas como Raytheon y lockheed Martin que fabrican ese tipo de grandes sistemas de armas.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 Armed with\u00a0new legal authorities to ramp up missile production and eyeing requirements for the Indo-Pacific theater, the US Navy and Air Force\u00a0are seeking a range of multi-year munition production contracts in the Pentagon\u2019s newest budget request.<\/p>\n

This week Department of Defense officials revealed that their\u00a0$842 billion discretionary budget request for fiscal 2024 includes five\u00a0multi-year munition buys, a move traditionally\u00a0reserved for larger ship and aircraft program contracts, a senior defense official told reporters on March 10. And if officials get their way, the number may expand\u00a0to seven such multi-year deals for high-end munitions \u2014 with a new pilot program to drive down costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year in the\u00a0[FY23 defense] authorization bill<\/a>, they gave us a new multi-year [authorities],\u201d the senior defense official explained. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to move out on those [and] so this is sort of the next step\u2026of picking some of the ones that are most important to us and for our vision of what we need to move out on first.\u201d<\/p>\n

In total next year, the DoD is seeking $30.6 billion for munition production and more than $1 billion for the munition industrial base, according to budget slides.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe assess what we need for ourselves for munitions routinely, we do it against the way in which we think about how we fight for the future, and against the real world demands that our combatant commands have [and] how they would operate,\u201d Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks added today.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019re focused\u2026not just on what we may need today, for example, to support Ukraine\u2026but looking ahead to the types of capabilities that we think are game changing for the future,\u201d she later added.<\/p>\n

Even with the new authorities, the Pentagon can\u2019t just agree to a multi-year munition procurement effort if it\u2019s over $500 million. For anything crossing that threshold, any multi-year buy has to be approved by congressional appropriators. The good news for DoD planners: Congress currently has munition stockpiles on the mind.<\/p>\n

Concerns over weapon stockpiles emerged as a central focal point for US and other\u00a0NATO members<\/a>\u00a0last year as the war inside Ukraine raged. Now entering its second year, all parties are looking for ways to shore up their respective industrial bases and refill their dwindling weapon arsenals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have much more to do. Even as we rush to support Ukraine in the critical months ahead, we must all replenish our stockpiles to strengthen our deterrence and defense for the long term,\u201d Defense Secretary Llyod Austin warned on Feb. 15 following the NATO Defense Ministerial meeting in Brussels.<\/p>\n

For DoD, this means looking to refill stockpiles of weapons have been useful in Ukraine while also trying to get ahead of a situation where the US military runs low of the kinds of weapons needed for a high-end conflict, especially one in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

Maj. Gen. Mike Greiner, the Air Force Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget, spelled the thinking out to reporters on March 10, saying \u201cSo the munitions we have provided to Ukraine\u2026 they\u2019re being replenished through [FY]23 supplemental dollars. So the focus in [FY]24 are those munitions we think we need for the highly contested pacing challenge, not to replace existing use.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, Pentagon planners are asking Congress to approve five multi-year buys over the $500 million threshold in FY24: Raytheon Technologies and Kongsberg Defence\u2019s Naval Strike Missile; Raytheon\u2019s RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile (ERAM), better known as the Standard Missile 6 (SM-6); Raytheon\u2019s AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile; Lockheed Martin\u2019s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM); and Lockheed Martin\u2019s AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER).<\/p>\n

If lawmakers bless the multi-year deals and approve the funding, the Pentagon wants to spend real dollars on procuring those systems in FY24 and is seeking to buy:<\/p>\n