The overhaul is based on recommendations by a “Tiger Team” of DoD senior experts. A DoD FMS Continuous Process Improvement Board has been established to implement the Tiger Team’s recommendations.

Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has cleared a memo ordering agencies to implement the six recommendations by a tiger team to accelerate and ...

Senior Airman James Graves marshals cargo onto a C-130J Super Hercules during a foreign military sales mission between the U.S. and Switzerland on May 14, 2023. (Senior Airman Cydney Lee/U.S. Air ...

HIMARS performing a dry run with V8 software. Countries can purchase the system through a Foreign Military Sales deal. (Photo by Rachel Gray/ U.S. Army's Program Executive Office Missiles and Space) ...

A Pentagon team is recommending new changes to the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) progress with the goal of helping allies and partners better outline their needs to speed up approval of international ...

WHAT: Over the past year, there have been indications that changes would be coming to the U.S. Government’s defense trade industry. From the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Tiger Team established by the ...

The US Department of Defense aims to improve the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process, to expedite the acquisition of military capabilities by allies and partners. In a memo, US defense secretary ...

The Czech Defense Ministry has submitted its formal letter of request to begin the purchase of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. The letter, one of the formalities associated with ...

Last month, the Pentagon announced the creation of a new task force to streamline inefficiencies long complicating U.S. sales of billions of dollars of weaponry to foreign countries. Alas, many of us ...