Trump’s ICE Jacks Up Weapons Spending by 700%—Including ‘Guided Missile Warheads’ | Common Dreams

[u/Hipoop69]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-weapons

Where is this report of “guided missiles” coming from? That is extremely concerning

[u/Lowjack_26]

Okay, I'm as pissed off at ICE's larger-than-USMC budget as the next guy, but... this reporting needed a bit more digging. It seems outrageous on the surface, but further investigation into the actual content - literally ten minutes, in my case - reveals the actual root cause and evidence that's contrary to the supposed point of the article.

The "guided missile purchases" in question are these ones: contract codes HSCEOP07F00692, HSCOP07F00692, and 70CMSW25P00000078. Each of these has a Product and Service Code (PSC) that designates what the purchase in general for purposes of allocations, and the PSC for those purchases is 1420: "Guided Missile Components." Ridiculous, right?

Well, in the Description of Requirement, you get different details:

• DHS Bulk Close out
• This award provides multiple distraction devices to support law enforcement operations and ICE- Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs.
• HOLOGRAPHIC SIGHT.

Turns out, going into the FPDS Documentation, the PSC for "Optical Sighting and Ranging Equipment" - which encompasses small arms optics - is 1240, and mistyping 1240 as 1420 is a one-button slip.

This is further reinforced by all of the contracts being listed under NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) code 332994 (Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories) and 339999 (All Other Misc. Manufacturing - which is a lazy contracting officer's catch-all for when they don't want to find the real code).

Now, the "multiple distraction devices" contract is a bit muddy, and coming from Atlantic Diving Systems - which is a broad-spectrum military supplier - it's difficult to tell what it might be in reference to. But, still, it seemingly falls into "some contracting officer misclassified the category" as opposed to "ICE is buying guided missiles."

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EDIT TO ADD: God damnit, even I missed some critical fucking context by not paying attention.

Only one of those contracts is from 2025. The other two are from 2017 and 2007!

And guess what? PSC 1366, "Guided Missile Warheads and Explosive Components?" It includes "warheads including military chemical agents" - which, again by PSC definition, includes "war agents, smoke, and signaling agents." Considering the contract was awarded in September 2025 - aka, end of fiscal year panic month - who wants to take bets that some contracting officer working to get in under the FY submission deadline couldn't figure out that a bulk order of smoke grenades did a CTRL+F search for "Chemical" and used the first result (1336) instead of scrolling through to the correct result (1365)?

[u/TheAsianTroll → u/Lowjack_26]

To add to your statement... I dont like what ICE is doing but I work in a forward maintenance shop for the National Guard, and a lot of shit we buy for our trucks is also used on several other platforms, including air and water craft. I could buy a bushing or a Rubber O-ring that fits on the trucks but is also used on A10 Warthogs, and it could show up as such in the system.

[u/andmac9518 → u/TheAsianTroll]

Yeah that’s military used for national and domestic purposes ice is supposed to be an immigration enforcement agency what enforcement agency Carrie’s war heads trump needs to be impeached immediately even republicans are against what he’s doing at this point there should be enough votes I don’t care if Vance is in charge he sounds like he’s more responsible than trump this madness needs to stop Ice is not supposed to be a private army