{"id":3562,"date":"2018-05-24T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2018-05-24T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:05:10","slug":"pentagon-is-speeding-up-arms-exports-to-saudi-arabia-other-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/24\/pentagon-is-speeding-up-arms-exports-to-saudi-arabia-other-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"PENTAGON IS SPEEDING UP ARMS EXPORTS TO SAUDI ARABIA, OTHER ALLIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2361\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-560x303.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-260x141.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-160x87.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defense One<\/p>\n<p>By Patrick Tucker<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is speeding up U.S. weapons deliveries to allied militaries such as Saudi Arabia, Romania, Japan, and South Korea through new \u201cpilot authorities\u201d that change how it can design and execute contracts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a whole variety of specific programs where we are focused on applying these authorities: Patriot Missiles for Romania; Global Hawk for Japan, THAAD [high-altitude air defense missiles] for Saudi Arabia, and TOW [vehicle-launched missiles] for multiple foreign military sales partners,\u201d Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>These new authorities will allow the Pentagon to shave \u201cyears\u201d off the time it takes to deliver weapons to friendly militaries, Lord said at the annual SOFIC event here.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/business\/2018\/05\/pentagon-speeding-arms-exports-saudi-arabia-other-allies\/148448\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defense One By Patrick Tucker The Pentagon is speeding up U.S. weapons deliveries to allied militaries such as Saudi Arabia, Romania, Japan, and South Korea through new \u201cpilot authorities\u201d that change how it can design and execute contracts. \u201cWe have a whole variety of specific programs where we are focused on applying these authorities:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/24\/pentagon-is-speeding-up-arms-exports-to-saudi-arabia-other-allies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PENTAGON IS SPEEDING UP ARMS EXPORTS TO SAUDI ARABIA, OTHER ALLIES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}