{"id":62115,"date":"2022-09-07T17:51:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/09\/07\/pentagons-acquisition-chief-talks-inflation-ukraine-vampires\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:31:59","slug":"pentagons-acquisition-chief-talks-inflation-ukraine-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2022\/09\/07\/pentagons-acquisition-chief-talks-inflation-ukraine-vampires\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon\u2019s acquisition chief talks inflation, Ukraine, \u2018Vampires\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment offered sympathy Wednesday for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2022\/09\/01\/defense-industry-to-launch-inflation-relief-push-in-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">defense-industrial base hit with inflation<\/a>. Speaking at the Defense News Conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/About\/Biographies\/Biography\/Article\/3035268\/dr-william-a-laplante\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill LaPlante<\/a> also provided examples of the Pentagon\u2019s creative efforts to arm Ukraine \u2015 from a ship-killing missile to a missile launcher dubbed Vampire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are three takeaways from LaPLante\u2019s appearance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>1. The Pentagon is mulling inflation adjustments for defense contracts.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acknowledging the defense industry is suffering from the the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic \u2015 inflation, supply chain snags and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2022\/08\/05\/amid-hiring-boom-defense-firms-say-labor-shortage-is-dragging-them-down\/\" target=\"_blank\"> labor shortages<\/a> \u2015 LaPlante said his team is working on new guidance for contracting officers to adjust otherwise firm fixed-price contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said his team is examining how to broaden what an economic price adjustment clause can be used for and can it justify the changes under extraordinary circumstances. They\u2019re also exploring what novel legislative approaches can be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m worried about the small supplier who signed the firm fixed-price contract. It\u2019s got 50 employees, and all of a sudden it was dealing with 11% inflation. How do we deal with that company? We don\u2019t want those companies go out of business,\u201d LaPlante said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re working on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In anticipation the Pentagon will seek funding from Congress, it\u2019s asking industry for data about companies that are potentially going under or not bidding on contracts due to the effects of inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want to keep our industrial base whole. We want to keep them solvent. We need them. We need the industrial base.\u201d LaPlante said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re after.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2022\/09\/07\/congress-wants-more-details-on-latest-ukraine-aid-request\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22151780796821.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Congress wants more details on latest Ukraine aid request<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Multiple senators on Tuesday said that they want reports and briefings on Joe Biden\u2019s new $13.7 billion funding request for Ukraine.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>2. Ukrainians who sank a Russian naval vessel received U.S. help.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian forces that sunk a Russian warship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2022\/05\/23\/ukraine-to-get-harpoon-anti-ship-missiles-from-denmark-amid-russian-black-sea-blockade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harpoon anti-ship missiles<\/a> in June received training sponsored by the U.S. and allies, LaPlante said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He offered that and other revelations about the strike to illustrate the creative ways the U.S. is arming Ukraine against Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Boeing-made, ship-based weapons were given to Ukraine by a U.S. ally LaPlante did not identify. The ship-based missile launchers were removed from the ally\u2019s ship and modified to fire from a flatbed truck, which served as the weapon\u2019s \u201cpower source.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBrought the Ukrainians to train on it over Memorial Day weekend in our country, and in the next week or two Russian ships were sunk,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine said in June that its forces had struck a Russian naval tugboat with two Harpoon missiles in the Black Sea, the first time it claimed to have hit a Russian vessel with Western-supplied anti-ship weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon announced Harpoon coastal defense systems were part of a $1 billion aid package for Ukraine announced June 15 under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2022\/08\/24\/us-to-send-ukraine-anti-air-anti-drone-systems-as-war-hits-milestone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>3. The Vampire system that the U.S. is supplying Ukraine is one of many.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The L3Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/newsletters\/2022\/08\/25\/vampire-to-transform-ukraine-pickups-into-deadly-missile-launchers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vampire <\/a>system, a light vehicle-borne missile launcher, is just one of \u201cprobably about 15 other\u201d capabilities the U.S. is acquiring through a novel contracting vehicle issued in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon posted a broad request for information from industry on the federal contracting website <a href=\"http:\/\/sam.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">sam.gov<\/a>., as part of a stepped-up dialogue between the Pentagon and industry. It asked for capabilities that would be available within 30, 60 and 90 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, LaPlante said the effort yielded \u201c1,300 responses \u2015 and it was from everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From there, U.S. European Command, working with Ukraine, vetted the proposals for contracting under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing-made, ship-based weapons were given to Ukraine by a U.S. ally LaPlante did not 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