U.S.-Israel Security Policy Project Membersįormer Deputy Commander of U.S. U.S.-Israel Security Policy Project Chairmanįormer NATO Supreme Allied Commander and former Commander of U.S. FEMA and the GSA transferred all funds, personnel, property, and records of the National Stockpile to DoD.
defense assistance to Israel (without increasing the annual cost to the United States). The Defense National Stockpile Center was established as a field activity within the Defense Logistics Agency to manage the operations of the stockpile program (DoD, 1988). firms, including by frontloading the 2016 MoU on U.S.
military and potentially other regional allies. Re-purposing and expanding WRSA-I from a strictly bilateral stockpile into a regional prepositioning hub, to support Israel’s projected wartime requirements as well as those of the U.S.Use of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund (SDAF) to expedite PGM deliveries, by enabling the Pentagon to purchase weapons in advance of their sale to Israel (without imposing additional overall costs on the United States).Congressional request for a non-confidential report or audit, potentially from the Government Accountability Office or U.S.Replenish stocks of critical PGMs in WRSA-I, including JDAM kits for unguided munitions and GBU-39 and GBU-53/B small diameter bombs.The United States and Israel must take several, not mutually exclusive, steps to strengthen Israel’s QME and fulfil America’s stated intent by replenishing and updating the stockpile: Israel will need abundant PGMs to compensate for limited defensive capabilities and prevail in an expected major war with Tehran and its proxies, all while minimizing collateral damage to civilians. Of particular concern is the stock of precision guided munitions (PGM), especially Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tailkits to convert unguided bombs.
Yet, the stockpile is falling dangerously short of meeting its stated purpose. law as Israel’s “qualitative military edge” (QME). Since it was first established in the 1980s, American officials have stated repeatedly how WRSA-I helps ensure the Jewish state’s ability to defend itself at acceptable cost, known in U.S. The War Reserve Stockpile Ammunition-Israel, or WRSA-I, is a forward-based arms depot of U.S.-made ammunition and supplies based in Israel, which is intended as a readily-accessible reserve – an insurance policy – for Israel to obtain vital munitions in wartime.
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