SHARED CAPABILITIES Australian Army infantrymen march to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter July 20, 2013, at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, in support of Talisman Saber 2013, a joint U.S.-Australian military exercise. FMS have helped to sustain production of the Chinook, among other Army programs. (U.S. Army photo by Jeffrey Smith)


Iroquois helicopter, or “Huey,” used during the Vietnam War is considered non-standard now, for example.


Each of these programs has played a part in a massive surge in Army FMS over the past decade. Te security cooperation community has had to adapt to a “new normal” in the scope and overall value of


the FMS program, with new sales


skyrocketing from $3.4 billion in FY03 to a record high of $24.2 billion in FY09 and averaging $18 billion annually over the past four fiscal years. Much of this increase is due to operations in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, where military forces are being reconstituted, where coalition partners have seen the need for military goods suitable to the conflict, and where


other nations have seen the value of our battle-tested and proven equipment.


Major international sales have helped to sustain production of a number of Army programs in recent years, including the Apache, the CH-47 Chinook helicop- ter, the Patriot missile system, Excalibur 155 mm precision-guided artillery shells, the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Sys- tem and Javelin antitank missiles.


In some cases, FMS can even revitalize an entire program: A significant purchase in 2009 reestablished a warm production line for the modernized Patriot missile system and provided development investment to resolve obsolescence issues in older systems. Tese benefits compounded the most obvi- ous boon: the award of a major production


contract for the first Army-managed new production of Patriot ground equipment in more than 15 years.


Another successful FMS venture involved the sale of 1,026 refurbished M113A2 armored personnel carriers. From 2011 to 2012, Army employees at the Annis- ton Army Depot (ANAD), AL, worked closely with defense contractor BAE to refurbish the U.S. government-owned vehicles. Providing these excess defense articles


through the FMS process and


having them refurbished through the public-private partnership between ANAD and BAE resulted in cost avoid- ance for the U.S. government through divesture of the vehicles. Te refur- bishment


also resulted in hundreds of thousands of core hours of work at ASC.ARMY.MIL 37


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