ARMY ACQUISITION SUPPORT TO UKRAINE
DESTROY, DEFEAT, DISRUPT
Washington National Guard Soldiers with 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team take part in Table VI certification live fire at Yakima Training Center, Washington, April 21-23. The role of field artillery is to destroy, defeat or disrupt the enemy with integrated fires to enable maneuver commanders to dominate in unified land operations. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Adeline Witherspoon, 122nd Theater Public Affairs Support Element)
PdD SAWS provides a tremendous value to the taxpayer.
CURRENT AND EVOLVING MISSION PdD SAWS emphasizes
reliable and
responsive support to ongoing FMS with our allies and international partners, while also ensuring that the U.S. industrial base remains strong in support of the National Military Strategy. With the advent of the invasion, PdD SAWS has been respon- sible for the increased procurement and delivery of thousands of non-standard indirect fire munitions along with non- standard 155 mm high explosive complete artillery ammunition.
PdD SAWS ensures reliable, safe and effective non-standard ammunition through a process of applied technical general specifications combined with visual and physical inspections of the ammunition. Broad technical parameters are installed within a base contract containing product-oriented specifications or details which are required as part of any delivery order. Within those general specifications are requirements and criteria for visual and physical review of workmanship, markings applied to the ammunition as well as packing and shipping materials, in addition to the requirements and criteria for ballistic testing of every lot of ammunition.
Leveraging the well understood and proven legacy design of foreign-produced
ammunition made since the Cold War era lends itself to the ease of manufacture, with the use of multiple non-domestic suppli- ers working to achieve steady production rates. Tis procurement strategy results in lower-cost, higher-volume production of safe and reliable ammunition at a fraction of the cost of conventional ammunition. While oriented to support FMS cases and other national governmental needs, the use of this strategy ensures that the ammuni- tion being provided to our allied nations does not impact readiness or affect domes- tic production for standard ammunition.
PdD SAWS—in support of Ukraine and using our skills for non-standard ammunition procurement—supports brokered arrangements and government transactions with partner nations. PdD SAWS provides assessments and evaluations of steeply discounted costs, as well as donations of non-standard ammunition, including non-standard equipment leveraging integra l non-standard ammunition.
CONCLUSION PdD SAWS provides a tremendous value to the taxpayer, while also strengthen- ing the economic and diplomatic bonds with the partner nations who manufac- ture non-standard items. For our coalition partners, PdD SAWS provides a highly effective tactical and training alternative to standard ammunition weapon systems since our partners are already familiar with the legacy systems, thereby decreas- ing the time to fielding. Te office provides an exceptional balance of safe, reliable and effective ammunition and small mortar weapons systems, while using the
diversity of nontraditional foreign suppli- ers to provide a lower-cost production base and surge capacity as it is needed.
For more information, go to https://
jpeoaa.army.mil/Project-Of fices/ PM-MAS/Organizations/PD-Special- Ammunition-and-Weapons-Systems.
STACY POTO is the deputy product director, Special Ammunition and Weapon Systems at JPEO A&A. She has an MBA in accounting from the University of Phoenix and an M.S. in contract management from the Naval Postgraduate School. She holds the DAWIA Advanced certification in program management and is a certified DOD contracting professional.
RAYMOND NULK is a defense support contractor with Blue Skies Inc., a subcontractor to SAIC. He retired from the U.S. Army as a colonel and he holds an M.S. in business analytics from Boston University, an M.S. in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College and a B.A. in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University. He holds the DAWIA Advanced certification in program management, and in business and financial management, and the Practitioner certification in test and evaluation.
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