日米、防衛装備協力で初会合　ミサイル生産、官民が連携

　日米両政府は９日、防衛装備品の共同開発・生産に関する「日米防衛産業協力・取得・維持整備定期協議（ＤＩＣＡＳ）」の初会合を防衛省で開催した。双方の防衛産業も交え、継戦能力の強化に向けた装備品のサプライチェーン（供給網）構築などに取り組む。
　ＤＩＣＡＳは、岸田文雄首相が４月に国賓訪米した際、バイデン大統領と設置で合意。当面は、ウクライナ情勢の影響で世界的に不足する防空ミサイルの生産体制強化や、日本の民間工場での米軍艦艇・戦闘機の整備がテーマとなる見通しだ。（2024/06/09-14:29）

Japan and the United States opened the first meeting of their Defense Industrial Cooperation Acquisition and Sustainment Forum, or DICAS, in Tokyo on Sunday.
   In the meeting, government officials discuss joint development and production of defense equipment. The two countries will work to build a supply chain for equipment to strengthen their abilities to keep fighting, gaining cooperation from the defense industries of both countries.
   The establishment of the forum was agreed between Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden during Kishida's state visit to the United States in April.
   Key issues include bolstering the production system of air defense missiles, which face global shortages amid Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, and doing maintenance on U.S. military vessels and fighter jets at commercial facilities in Japan.
   The meeting will end on Monday. Participants include Masaki Fukasawa, commissioner of Japan's Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency, and U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment William LaPlante.