White House executive order aims to speed arm sales, cut red tape
The order includes a directive for State and DoD to compile a list of “priority partners” and “priority end items” for transfer.
The order includes a directive for State and DoD to compile a list of “priority partners” and “priority end items” for transfer.
The United States signed off on arms exports worth $192.3 billion over the past year, a full 13 percent increase from the previous year -- even as the Trump administration keeps pushing hard to sell more weapons, more quickly, to more allies overseas.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.