What has changed in Foreign Military Sales since Executive Order 14268?

Official documents, numbered consecutively, through which the President of the United States manages the operations of the Federal Government.

Mandated by Section 40A of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) (22 U.S.C. 2785), activities undertaken by the U.S. Government to ensure that defense articles and defense services transferred to foreign partners under security assistance/cooperation authorities are monitored and used according to the terms and conditions specified in Letters of Offer and Acceptance and other transfer agreements, and as required by the AECA or the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

A group of programs authorized by federal statutes by which the United States provides defense articles, military training, and other defense-related services by grant, lease, loan, credit, or cash sales in furtherance of national policies and objectives, and those that are funded and authorized through the Department of State to be administered by Department of Defense/Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which are considered part of security cooperation.

The military department or defense agency responsible for the execution of military assistance programs. With respect to FMS, the military department or defense agency assigned responsibility by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to prepare an LOA and to implement an FMS case. The implementing agency is responsible for the overall management of the actions that will result in delivery of the materials or services set forth in the LOA that was accepted by a foreign country or international organization.

A process, authorized by the Arms Export Control Act, through which eligible foreign governments and international organizations may purchase defense articles, services, and training from the United States Government.

The USG’s accounting period. It begins on October 1 and ends on September 30 and is designated by the calendar year in which it ends.

Provides for the pipeline capitalization of a cooperative logistics support arrangement, which consists of stocks on hand and replenishment of stocks on order in which the participating country buys equity in the U.S. supply system for the support of a specific weapons system. Even though stocks are not moved to a foreign country, delivery (equity) does in effect take place when the country pays for the case.

An agency, under the authority, direction, and control of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD(P)), that directs, administers, and provides DoD-wide guidance to the DoD Components and DoD representatives to U.S. missions abroad for the execution of DoD security assistance and security cooperation programs over which DSCA has responsibility, in accordance with Chapter 32 and Chapter 39 of title 22 U.S.C., DoD Directive (DoDD) 5132.03, other laws, and DoDD 5105.65.

A USG Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA), and any subsequent Amendment or Modification, that is the legal instrument used by the USG to transfer defense articles and defense services under the FMS program. See also "FMS" and "LOA."

Activities undertaken by the DoD to encourage and enable international partners to work with the United States to achieve strategic objectives. It includes all DoD interactions with foreign defense and security establishments, including all DoD-administered security assistance programs, that: build defense and security relationships that promote specific U.S. security interests, including all international armaments cooperation activities and security assistance activities; develop allied and friendly military capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations; and provide U.S. forces with peacetime and contingency access to host nations.

Total amount of the cost reflected on line 21 of the DD Form 1513 or line 8 of the Letter of Offer and Acceptance.

The amount of obligations that have not been liquidated by payments (disbursements).

An account established for each Foreign Military Sales country/international organization for the purpose of recording and safeguarding unidentified and certain earmarked funds for future use

An Foreign Military Sales case for which all materiel has been delivered, all services have been performed, all financial transactions, including all collections, have been completed, and the customer has received a final statement of account.

A catalogue of materiel, services, and training used in the planning and programming of International Military Education and Training (IMET), and Foreign Military Sales (FMS). Separate MASLs are maintained for IMET and FMS training that provides data on course identification, course availability, price, and duration of training.

Any weapon, weapons system, munition, aircraft, vessel, boat, or other implement of war;

A unified or specified command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander established and so designated by the President, through the Secretary of Defense and with the advice and assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Also called CCMD.

SAN is a web-based system (also known as SANweb) that hosts various Security Cooperation applications and a library system for sharing documents. SAN also provides administrative functions to monitor and manage user accounts, control access to hosted applications and provides logs for system access and actions performed by the users. The SAN's counterpart, International SAN (ISAN), provides limited access to partner countries. It has only one application, Partner Security Cooperation - Training Management System.

A national of a foreign government, with military or civilian status of that government, who is receiving education or training or is touring USG activities under the sponsorship of the security assistance training program.

Any item of Significant Military Equipment on the U.S. Munitions List having a nonrecurring research and development cost of more than $50 million or a total production cost of more than $200 million. Also defined in section 47 (6), Arms Export Control Act.

The total value of the Letter of Offer and Acceptance at the time of calculation, which includes the cost of the materiel, services, all Indirect Pricing Components, administrative charges, and all accessorial charges.