On Tuesday, June 10, 2025, Paweł Bejda, Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Defence, responsible for overseeing the technical modernization of the Polish Armed Forces, announced that the Armaments Agency had signed a grant agreement for the allocation of funds to Poland under the European program for joint military procurement, EDIRPA (European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act).
Photo: Polish Armaments Group
“Millions of euros will be transferred to the accounts of six countries, including Poland. Today, we signed a grant agreement for funding under the EDIRPA program. This additional financing will support technical modernization — our goal is a strong Polish Armed Forces,” wrote Deputy Minister of National Defence Paweł Bejda on his profile on the social media platform X.
“The Head of the Armaments Agency, Brig. Gen. Dr. Artur Kuptel, signed the grant agreement on behalf of Poland, through which we will receive funds from the EDIRPA program for the joint purchase of ammunition. This is the result of our cooperation with European partners to build common security. It is our first, but not our last, step toward European defense projects,” reads a post on the Armaments Agency’s profile.
On November 14, 2024, the European Commission announced the winners of the first EDIRPA program call, under which five international projects were approved for funding to support more coordinated and efficient defense procurement among EU member states. Each of the five selected projects will receive 60 million EUR, for a total funding amount of 300 million EUR.
Poland was among the beneficiaries of the CPoA 155mm project, which involves the procurement of various types of 155 mm artillery ammunition, together with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Italy, Lithuania, Croatia, and Denmark. In addition, a joint procurement project involving Piorun man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS), together with Lithuania, Norway, and Estonia, was placed on the reserve list.
In June 2024, the Ministry of National Defence reported that Poland had submitted not only the aforementioned Pioruns to the EDIRPA program, but also Baobab-K scatterable mine-laying vehicles and MSBS Grot rifles (from the portfolio of the Polish Armaments Group), as well as FlyEye Miniature Unmanned Aerial Systems, the Warmate 1 Precision Loitering Munition System, and the Gladius Reconnaissance and Strike Unmanned System (from the WB Group portfolio).
Szef #AU, gen. bryg. dr Artur Kuptel, podpisał po 🇵🇱 stronie porozumienie grantowe, dzięki któremu otrzymamy środki finansowe z programu #EDIRPA z tytułu wspólnego zakupu amunicji.
Jest to efekt naszych działań z europejskimi partnerami na rzecz budowy wspólnego bezpieczeństwa.… https://t.co/hKyUYSo3nG
— Agencja Uzbrojenia (@AgencjaUzbr) June 10, 2025
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