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Dwindling munitions stockpiles, in particular, have officials scrambling to rebuild those arms chests collectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But collaborative procurement efforts have so far failed to materialize at scale. At the European Defense Agency\u2019s (EDA) annual conference, held Thursday in Brussels as well as virtually, stakeholders from the union\u2019s civil and defense leadership parsed out what has made it so tough for EU members to effectively buy equipment together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eda.europa.eu\/publications-and-data\/latest-publications\/eda-defence-data-2020-2021\"><u>The EDA\u2019s annual defense data report, released during the conference,<\/u><\/a> had positive news to share. In 2021, the union spent \u20ac214 billion (U.S. $225 billion) on defense, a new high for the alliance, a 6% increase over 2020\u2032s numbers, and the first time it surpassed \u20ac200 billion in spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Member states spent \u20ac52 billion ($54.6 billion) on procurement and research-and-development (R&amp;D) efforts, also an all-time high at 24% of total defense investments, and 16% more than was spent on those areas in 2020. Of that amount, \u20ac3.6 billion was specifically used for R&amp;D programs. The report tracks defense spending for 26 of the EU\u2019s 27 member nations, excluding Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU foreign policy and defense chief Josep Borrell hailed these investments in his opening remarks at the conference, but set the bar even higher with a pledge from member nations to add \u20ac70 billion ($73.6 billion) to defense spending within the next three years. Acknowledging that this goalpost will prove to be a challenge, Borrell warned that focusing solely on national, present-term defense priorities and relying on off-the-shelf acquisitions will only extend the current \u201cfragmented European Union capability landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Borrell also noted key areas of needed improvement for the union: joint procurement efforts remain lower than desired, and investment commitments are lopsided among members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joint purchases totaled about \u20ac8 billion, and only 18% of all defense investments, in 2021. That\u2019s up from the 11% share in 2020, but also far lower than the EDA\u2019s \u201cmodest benchmark\u201d of 35%, Borrell noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen less than 20% of all investment in defense programs is conducted in cooperation, we have to say, it\u2019s not a good way of spending European money,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Borrell and others at the conference called for member states to address short- and medium-term equipment needs by \u201cbuying more, and buying more together.\u201d Ongoing support for delivering weapons and equipment to Ukraine also remained unequivocally supported by the conference\u2019s panelists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the ministers and stakeholders present were also realistic about the challenges to joint EU procurement efforts. While the delays and struggles to launch high-profile projects such as the trinational Future Combat Air System (FCAS) have made headlines, even smaller projects launched under initiatives such as the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) have failed to get off the ground after years of planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The union has long suffered from expectation management for initiatives like PESCO, said Jan Jire\u0161, the Czech Republic\u2019s deputy minister for defense policy and strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Member nations \u201chave repeatedly made the mistake of hyping some initiative, and actually promoting it as a real game changer in defense security, and then inevitably, disappointment came,\u201d Jire\u0161 said during a panel discussion at the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that member nations have flexibility in how they choose to cooperate on defense investments. For example, the Czech Republic and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2022\/06\/29\/slovakia-picks-cv90-in-infantry-fighting-vehicle-tender\/\"><u>Slovakia have each committed to procuring new CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles from Sweden<\/u><\/a>, with over 350 vehicles to be delivered collectively, Jire\u0161 said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He emphasized that this would not be a \u201cjoint\u201d procurement effort in the sense of tendering a single contract for the two nations. \u201cBut still, we have tried to coordinate, let\u2019s say, our negotiations with the Swedish government, for example, in order to achieve economics of scale,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCollaborating in joint procurement and capability development can take many different forms, and the spectrum \u2026 is very broad,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials at the conference noted that the war in Ukraine has presented a window of opportunity for purchases to replace obsolete, Soviet-made equipment among EU member nations. That has, to an extent, already been taking place, as Germany this year established a \u201cRingtausch,\u201d or \u201cRingswap,\u201d equipment exchange program aimed at encouraging allies to send their Soviet-era equipment to Ukraine and receive NATO-compatible equipment in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More could be done to connect the European Union and NATO to help refill needed stockpiles and increase joint defense procurement, conference panelists also said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO members specifically can take advantage of a key online tool to coordinate their investments, said Stacy Cummings, general manager of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cummings said she has presented alliance officials with the concept of \u201can online clearinghouse,\u201d which would be based on the NATO Logistics Stock Exchange, an online marketplace. 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