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Raytheon Technologies makes the Stinger, and \u2014 as part of a joint venture with Lockheed Martin \u2014 the Javelin. The chief executives of both firms have voiced supply chain struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to find solutions that produce these weapons at a much faster rate than I\u2019ve seen assessed in classified settings,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cI suspect most people on the committee would want to work with the [Defense] Department on that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bush proposed the advanced procurement funding as an adjustment to the Army\u2019s fiscal 2023 budget, which is not likely to be approved by Congress for months. Defense watchers may associate advanced procurement funding with large weapons platforms, and Bush said it was not a tool the Army uses often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. House on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/05\/10\/house-to-vote-on-40-billion-ukraine-aid-package\/\" target=\"_blank\">passed a $40 billion spending package<\/a> for Ukraine that authorizes the Biden administration to send another $11 billion in U.S. military equipment to Ukraine and includes $8.7 billion to backfill stocks already sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the administration works with industry to boost production capacity, some lawmakers worry U.S. stockpiles are being strained. Lawmakers have said the roughly 5,000 Javelins the Biden administration has sent to Ukraine amount to one-third of the U.S. stockpiles, and the 1,400 Stingers sent to Ukraine represent a quarter of U.S. stockpiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked at a Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on May 3 whether those stocks could be replaced within a year, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said yes, with the help of the Ukraine spending package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not only possible, but we will do that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe<b> <\/b>will never go below our minimum requirement for our stockpiles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been several less optimistic assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, Lockheed CEO Jim Taiclet said the company hopes to double production to 4,000 Javelins per year, but it would take \u201ca number of months, maybe even a couple of years\u201d and that Congress could help by reshoring microprocessor manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes has said his company may not be able to make more Stingers until at least 2023 and, because some components are no longer commercially available, the company will have to redesign electronics in the missile\u2019s seeker head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a separate congressional hearing Tuesday, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth acknowledged Raytheon\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRaytheon is trying to really accelerate. Whether they can come inside of a one-year period, I\u2019m not sure. I think it may take a little more time,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we are trying to work aggressively with industry and are committed to replacing stockpiles, at least to the level that they were. There may be some congressional discussion about moving higher than the past level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Raytheon hasn\u2019t offered specifics about the Stinger\u2019s obsolete part, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Industrial Policy Bill Greenwalt told Defense News it\u2019s likely a piece of electronics that\u2019s gone out of production. The Pentagon in many other cases has tried to stockpile these chips when they\u2019re about to be unavailable, but \u201cthat is not always successful,\u201d he said in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSomething along those lines is likely to have happened so the part will likely need to be redesigned, prototyped, tested, and only when proven that it works can be produced in quantity,\u201d Greenwalt said. \u201cThat can\u2019t begin until after the [Pentagon\u2019s] notoriously slow decision, budgeting, and contracting processes have been completed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army has been working to upgrade some of its stockpile of Stinger missiles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/09\/07\/us-army-close-to-green-lighting-extra-lethal-stinger-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">with a proximity fuze<\/a>, which enables them to more effectively defeat unmanned aircraft systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service uses the missile in its new Stryker combat vehicle-based Short Range Air Defense systems and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2022\/03\/30\/us-armys-short-range-air-defense-capability-will-grow-to-a-battalion-by-years-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">planning to field four battalions<\/a> with the new SHORAD capability. 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