Notice2022-04482
Arms Sales Notification
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Published
March 3, 2022
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Defense Department
Abstract
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of an arms sales notification.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 42 (Thursday, March 3, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12132-12134]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[Transmittal No. 21-0E]
Arms Sales Notification
AGENCY: Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Department of Defense
(DoD).
ACTION: Arms sales notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text
of an arms sales notification.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Neil Hedlund at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#442a212d286a236a2c212028312a206a272d320429252d286a292d28"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="513f34383d7f367f3934353d243f357f323827113c30383d7f3c383d">[email protected]</span></a> or (703) 697-9214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 36(b)(5)(C) arms sales notification is
published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-
164 dated July 21, 1996. The following is a copy of a letter to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Transmittal 21-0E with
attached Policy Justification.
Dated: February 25, 2022.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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Transmittal No. 21-0E
REPORT OF ENHANCEMENT OR UPGRADE OF SENSITIVITY OF TECHNOLOGY OR
CAPABILITY (SEC. 36(B)(5)(C), AECA)
(i) Prospective Purchaser: Taipei Cultural and Economic
Representative Office (TECRO) in the United States.
(ii) Sec. 36(b)(1), AECA Transmittal No.: 19-50.
Date: August 20, 2019
Military Department: Air Force
Funding Source: National Funds
(iii) Description: On August 20, 2019, Congress was notified by
Congressional certification transmittal number 19-50 of the possible
sale, under Section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act, of sixty-
six (66) F-16C/D Block 70 aircraft; seventy-five (75) F110 General
Electric Engines (includes 9 spares); seventy-five (75) Link-16 Systems
(includes 9 spares); seventy-five (75) Improved Programmable Display
Generators (iPDG) (includes 9 spares); seventy-five (75) APG-83 Active
Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radars (includes 9 spares);
seventy-five (75) Modular Mission Computers 7000AH (includes 9 spares);
seventy-five (75) LN-260 Embedded GPS/INS (includes 9 spares); seventy-
five (75) M61 Vulcan 20mm Guns (includes 9 spares); one-hundred thirty-
eight (138) LAU-129 Multipurpose Launchers; six (6) FMU-139D/B Fuze for
Guided Bombs; six (6) FMU-139D/B Inert Fuze for Guided Bombs; six (6)
FMU 152 Fuze for Guided Bombs: six (6) MK-82 Filled Inert Bombs for
Guided Bombs; and three (3) KMU-572 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)
Tail Kits, GBU-38/54. Also included are seventy-five (75) AN/ALE-47
Countermeasure Dispensers (includes 9 spares); one-hundred twenty (120)
ALE-50 towed decoy or equivalent; seventy-five (75) APX-126 Advanced
Identification Friend or Foe (includes 9 spares); seventy five (75) AN/
ALQ-211 A(V)4 Airborne Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite
(AIDEWS) or
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equivalent (includes 9 spares); EW Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) and
Standard Electronic Module (SEM) spares; one hundred fifty (150) ARC-
238 radios (includes 18 spares); Secure Communications and
Cryptographic Appliques including seventy-three (73) KIV-78
cryptographic COMSEC devices, and ten (10) AN/PYQ-10 Simple Key Loaders
(SKLs) for COMSEC; three (3) Joint Mission Planning Systems (JMPS);
twenty-seven (27) Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS) II with
Night Vision Device (NVD) compatibility or Scorpion Hybrid Optical-
based Inertial Tracker (HOblT) helmet mounted cueing system with NVD
compatibility; seventy (70) NVDs; six (6) NVD spare image intensifier
tubes; Cartridge Actuated Devices/Propellant Actuated Devices (CAD/
PAD); cartridges; chaff; flares; three (3) each DSU-38A/B Precision
Laser Guidance Sensor (PLGS) for GBU-54 Laser Joint Direct Attack
Munition (LJDAM) integration; PGU-28A/B 20mm ammunition; telemetry
units for integration and test; bomb components; twenty (20) ground
debriefing stations; Electronic Combat International Security
Assistance Program (ECISAP) support including EW database and Mission
Data File (MDF) development (classified/unclassified); communications
equipment; classified/unclassified spares, repair, support equipment,
test equipment, software delivery/support, personnel training, training
equipment, flight/tactics manuals, publications and technical
documentation; bomb racks; Organizational, Intermediate and Depot level
tooling; Pilot Life Support Equipment (PLSE); Alternate Mission
Equipment (AME); ground training devices (including flight and
maintenance simulators); containers; development, integration, test and
engineering, technical and logistical support of munitions; aircraft
ferry; studies and surveys; construction services; U.S. Government and
contractor engineering, technical and logistical support services; and
other related elements of logistics, program and sustainment support.
The estimated total cost was $8.0 billion. Major Defense Equipment
(MDE) constituted $5.1 billion of this total.
This transmittal reports the addition of fifty-seven (57) Sniper
Advanced Targeting Pods (ATPs) (AN/AAQ-33) (MDE). The following non-MDE
items will also be included: Infrared Search and Track (IRST) pods
(IRST International); IRST and Sniper ATP shipping containers; pylons;
spare parts; repair and return; publications and technical
documentation; software support; integration and test support; U.S.
Government and Contractor engineering, technical and logistics support;
and additional familiarization training. Additionally, this transmittal
amends the original CN's reference to a specific electronic warfare
system, to a successfully engineered and tested future Electronic
Warfare (EW) Suite, integrated on the F-16V Block 70 aircraft. The
total cost of the new MDE articles is $154.33 million, and the total
cost of the new non-MDE articles is $307.52 million. The total notified
cost of MDE will not increase, and the total notified case value will
remain $8.0 billion.
(iv) Significance: This notification is being provided as the
additional MDE items were not enumerated in the original notification.
Their inclusion represents an increase in capability over what was
previously notified. As the recipient continues with its plans to
develop its F-16 fleet, it has requested integration of IRST and Sniper
capabilities. The proposed articles and services increases the
recipient's capability to participate in Indo-Pacific region security
operations and improves the recipient's credible defense capability.
(v) Justification: This proposed sale is consistent with U.S. law
and policy as expressed in Public Law 96-8. This proposed sale serves
U.S. national, economic, and security interests by supporting the
recipient's continuing efforts to modernize its armed forces and to
maintain a credible defensive capability. The proposed sale will help
improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining
political stability, military balance, economic and progress in the
region.
(vi) Sensitivity of Technology: The Sniper ATP is an electro-
optical targeting system housed in a single, lightweight pod. It is the
most widely fielded combat-tested targeting pod system employed today
and handles the most challenging precision targeting and intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance air-to-air and air-to-ground missions
in the land, sea, and air domains.
The IRST is a type of sensor that can detect and track threats that
have infrared signatures, at long ranges. It can act without emitting
any radiation of its own and enables aircrews to detect adversaries,
before those adversaries see or sense them.
The highest level of classification of information included in this
potential sale is SECRET.
(vii) Date Report Delivered to Congress: April 21, 2021
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