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Article Excerpt
[The following article originally appeared online in DSCA Partners Magazine, April 2009.]
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) sold more than $36.4 billion in weapons systems and related services to friends, partners, and allies around the world making fiscal year 2008 a record-breaking year for U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS).
According to Vice Admiral Jeffrey Wieringa, DSCA Director, if the current trend is any indication, fiscal year 2009 sales could total as much as $40 billion.
Wieringa is charged with leading, directing, and managing security cooperation programs to support national security objectives for the Department of Defense. Like all of the agency's programs, FMS helps nurture relationships, build allied and partner capacities for self-defense, and promote peacetime and contingency access for U.S. forces.
The FMS process is a deliberate system that involves numerous players throughout...
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