From the Editor-in-Chief
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin autho- rized a “special military operation” and invaded Ukraine. Te U.S. and NATO support to Ukraine was almost immediate, and what started as a trickle of financial and weapons support has turned into a full-fledged deluge. Almost a day doesn’t go by that America isn’t announcing another security assistance package of financial aid or weapons, or both, for hundreds of weapons to billions of dollars. Te weapons range from ammunition, repair parts and supplies, to rifles, tanks and aircraft.
However, what is lost in many of those numbers is the hercu- lean effort it takes to supply the equipment, how hard it is and what the Army Acquisition Workforce (AAW) is doing to make it happen. As of July 7, 2023, the U.S. has committed more than $42 billion, and thousands of weapons, munitions and supplies to Ukraine.
As the Army acquisition exec- utive (AAE), the Honorable Douglas R. Bush, notes in his column, Page 5, the U.S. is the arsenal of democracy. Tese weapons and supplies must come from somewhere, and that is where the AAE and his 32,000-strong AAW and industry partners step in. Te normal low rate of production for equipment, ammunition and spare parts running at a peacetime pace must increase dramatically, not only to field needed equipment to our troops, but to feed the seemingly insa- tiable need of the war in Ukraine.
Nelson McCouch III @
armyalt@army.mil
U.S. support to Ukraine includes: • Over 2,000 Stinger anti-aircraft systems. • Over 10,000 Javelin anti-armor systems.
• Over 198 155 mm howitzers and over 2,000,000 155 mm artillery rounds.
• 38 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and ammunition.
• Over 500 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles.
• One Patriot air defense battery and munitions.
• Equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles and radars with Ukraine’s air defense systems.
• Equipment to sustain Ukraine’s existing air defense capabilities.
For a full list of support, please see the fact sheet on security assistance to Ukraine at
defense.gov.
AAW members are at the forefront of this balancing act, ensuring needed equipment, contracts, supplies and munitions are flow- ing to the armed forces of Ukraine while maintaining readiness at home. Doing this is tricky business and has been the AAE’s primary focus over the last year and a half. Tis issue focuses on what the Army is doing to support the fight in Ukraine, while continuing all the other programs and readiness requirements to ensure our Soldiers are ready. How is all that aid mentioned above getting to Ukraine? Read all about it in “Train and Aid,” Page 46. Te North Alabama-based U.S. Army Security Assis- tance Command has facilitated the delivery of $12.3 billion in weapons, training and materiel since the beginning of the inva- sion. And the King of Battle can only be king with the right weapon system and munitions. In “It’s All In Te Delivery,” Page 28, learn how the Joint Program Executive for Office for Arma- ments and Ammunition’s mission to ship M777 howitzers into Ukraine has quickly evolved into using all the expertise and func- tions program management offices were established to provide, as well as how a game-changing artillery shell was successfully integrated into the Ukrainian theater of operation by Project Manager for Combat Ammunition Systems in “Wielding Excal- ibur,” Page 36.
As Gen. Robert H. Barrow, then commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, famously uttered in 1979, “Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.” See how the professionals at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, unquestionably assist Ukraine and NATO member nations in Eastern Europe in countering Russian
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