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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongress Appropriates $235 Million For Israeli Iron Dome Procurement
The fiscal year 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama January 17, provides $235 million for Israel to procure the Iron Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats.
The bill says of the $4.2 billion appropriated for defense-wide procurement and $17.1 billion for defense-wide research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E); $504 million shall be for the Israeli Cooperative Programs, in which the U.S. and Israel work together to help Israel develop and improve its indigenous capability to defend against short and medium range ballistic missiles. Iron Dome funding comes from the $504 million for Israeli Cooperative Programs.
Of the $235 million provided for Iron Dome, $15 million is for non-recurring engineering costs in connection with the establishment of a capacity for co-production by U.S. industry in the U.S. of Iron Dome parts and components. Roughly $150 million is for the Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD) program, including cruise missile defense research and development (R&D) and $15 million from the SRBMD allocation would be production activities of SRBMD missiles in the U.S. and Israel to meet Israels defense requirements.
Nearly $75 million is appropriated for an upper-tier component to the Israeli Missile Defense Architecture with $44 million for the Arrow System Improvement program, including development of a long range and ground and airborne detection suite.
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jsr
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(7,051 posts)Love ya, champ ... but it's time to leave the nest.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)when for a mere pittance they can get AIPAC to keep the money rolling in? What a scam....
If you could arrange for the government to give you 100K a year, and all it took was taking 1K of that and bribing officials, would you not do that?