Passing Gallagher’s bill to help bolster Taiwan’s cybersecurity.Establishing a standing joint force headquarters or joint task force in the Pacific.Establishing a U.S.-Taiwan combined planning group.Building upon an FY23 NDAA provision to “establish or expand a comprehensive training program with Taiwan”.Air Force to increase resourcing for fielding deployable airbase sets at U.S. military to invest in passive defenses, such as hardened fuel depots and other logistics facilities, and reserve supplies and direct the U.S. The panel also recommends expanded base access with allies and partners throughout the region, and says “Congress should direct the U.S. Gallagher told Defense News in an April interview he’s lobbying appropriators to fund multiyear munitions procurement this year. munitions production by authorizing multiyear procurement contracts for thousands of critical munitions, but congressional appropriators for the most part did not provide the needed funding. The FY23 NDAA sought to jump-start high-priority U.S. Multiyear procurement authorities historically have been used for big-ticket items like ships and aircraft, but the Pentagon and some lawmakers have recently expressed interest in using them for munitions acquisition to encourage defense companies to ramp up production amid concern about insufficient U.S. Hoping to send a strong demand signal for the defense industry to ramp up munitions production, the China Committee wants the FY24 NDAA to authorize up to five years of munitions procurement contracts for long-range anti-ship missiles, naval strike missiles, precision strike missiles, MK-48 torpedoes and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. would run out of precision-guided missiles within a week in the event of a conflict with China, and Gallagher is leading a push to get appropriators on board with funding multiyear munitions procurement authorities. The FY23 NDAA authorized up to $2 billion in Taiwanese military aid, but congressional appropriators decided to fund that as loans instead of grants amid concerns it would eat away at other State Department budget priorities. The report calls on congressional appropriations to provide “grant assistance” for Taiwan to buy more U.S. stockpiles.Īnother recommendation is quarterly updates on the Biden administration’s efforts to address the foreign military sales backlog, especially for Taiwan. The Pentagon is using a separate authority in that bill to prepare a package of weapons for Taiwan from U.S. The FY23 National Defense Authorization Act authorized $500 million in funding through 2025 for a “regional contingency stockpile” in the Pacific. To preposition critical weapons on the island, the China Committee wants the Pentagon to establish a war reserve stockpile for Taiwan and other Pacific allies akin to U.S. would have arming Taiwan in the event of a China crisis, the same way it has for Ukraine given the lack of a land border. The war games illustrated the difficulty the U.S. The proposals also call for hardening and distributing American forces throughout the Indo-Pacific region and expanding training and coordination between the U.S. The 10 recommendations include establishing a war reserve stockpile of weapons in Taiwan, prioritizing weapons delivery for Taipei and authorizing multiyear munitions procurement contracts. We must clear the embarrassment that is the $19 billion backlog.” “If we want to have a hope of stopping World War III, we need to arm Taiwan to the teeth right now. “At the select committee’s Taiwan war game, we saw the terrifying result of deterrence failure,” Gallagher said in advance of the vote.
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