Notice2024-11035
Arms Sales Notification
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Published
May 20, 2024
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Defense Department
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The DoD is publishing the unclassified text of an arms sales notification.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 98 (Monday, May 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43836-43839]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11035]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[Transmittal No. 22-11]
Arms Sales Notification
AGENCY: Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Department of Defense
(DoD).
ACTION: Arms sales notice.
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SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing the unclassified text of an arms sales
notification.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Neil Hedlund at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#432d262a2f6d246d2b26272f362d276d202a35032e222a2f6d2e2a2f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5b353e3237753c75333e3f372e353f7538322d1b363a323775363237">[email protected]</span></a> or (703) 697-9214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 36(b)(1) 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 22-11 with
attached Policy Justification and Sensitivity of Technology.
Dated: May 15, 2024.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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Transmittal No. 22-11
Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of Offer Pursuant to Section
36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act, as Amended
(i) Prospective Purchaser: Government of Egypt
(ii) Total Estimated Value:
Major Defense Equipment *............... $1.725 billion.
Other................................... $.875 billion.
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TOTAL................................. $2.600 billion.
Funding Source: Combined National Funds and Foreign Military
Financing (FMF)
(iii) Description and Quantity or Quantities of Articles or
Services under Consideration for Purchase:
Major Defense Equipment (MDE):
Twenty-three (23) CH-47F Chinook Helicopters
Fifty-six (56) T-55-GA-714A Engines (46 installed, 10 spares)
Fifty-two (52) Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) Inertial
Navigation Systems (INS) (EGI) (46 installed, 6 spares)
Twenty-nine (29) AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS)
(23 installed, 6 spares)
Seventy-five (75) M-240 Machine Guns (69 installed, 6 spares)
Non-MDE:
Also included is Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) classified
software; AN/APR-39 Radar Warning Receivers (RWR); AN/AVR-2B Laser
Detecting Sets (LDS);
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High Frequency (HF) radios; Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE)
(including 25.4mm decoy cartridges, impulse cartridges for cable
cutters and aircraft cartridges); AN/ARN-147 Very High Frequency (VHF)
Omni Directional Radio Range/Instrument Landing System (VOR/ILS)
receivers; AN/ARN-153 Tactical Airborne Navigation System (TACAN)
radios; AN/APN-209 radar altimeters; AN/AVS-6 Night Vision Devices
(NVD); 7.62mm ammunition; items and services to support the mission
equipment; hardware and services required to implement additional
aircraft options such as: rescue hoists; external cargo slings and
nets; Bambi fire buckets; Fast Rope Insertion Extraction Systems
(FRIES); Cargo On/Off Loading Systems (COOLS); Extended Range Fuel
Systems (ERFS); upgrade to the maintenance hangar and additional
parking pads; special tools and test equipment; ground support
equipment; airframe and engine spare parts; technical data;
publications; Maintenance Work Orders/Engineering Change Proposals
(MWO/ECPs); technical assistance; transportation; training; and other
related elements of logistics and program support.
(iv) Military Department: Army (EG-B-VGG)
(v) Prior Related Cases, if any: EG-B-KXA, EG-B-BEL
(vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, Offered, or Agreed to be
Paid: None known at this time
(vii) Sensitivity of Technology Contained in the Defense Article or
Defense Services Proposed to be Sold: See Attached Annex
(viii) Date Report Delivered to Congress: May 26, 2022
* As defined in Section 47(6) of the Arms Export Control Act.
POLICY JUSTIFICATION
Egypt--CH-47F Chinook Helicopters
The Government of Egypt has requested to buy twenty-three (23) CH-
47F Chinook helicopters; fifty-six (56) T-55-GA-714A engines (46
installed, 10 spares); fifty-two (52) Embedded Global Positioning
System (GPS) Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) (EGI) (46 installed, 6
spares); twenty-nine (29) AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems
(CMWS) (23 installed, 6 spares); and seventy-five (75) M-240 machine
guns (69 installed, 6 spares). Also included is Common Missile Warning
System (CMWS) classified software; AN/APR-39 Radar Warning Receivers
(RWR); AN/AVR-2B Laser Detecting Sets (LDS); High Frequency (HF)
radios; Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) (including 25.4mm decoy
cartridges, impulse cartridges for cable cutters and aircraft
cartridges); AN/ARN-147 Very High Frequency (VHF) Omni Directional
Radio Range/Instrument Landing System (VOR/ILS) receivers; AN/ARN-153
Tactical Airborne Navigation System (TACAN) radios; AN/APN-209 radar
altimeters, AN/AVS-6 Night Vision Devices (NVD); 7.62mm ammunition;
items and services to support the mission equipment; hardware and
services required to implement additional aircraft options such as:
rescue hoists; external cargo slings and nets; Bambi fire buckets; Fast
Rope Insertion Extraction Systems (FRIES); Cargo On/Off Loading Systems
(COOLS); Extended Range Fuel Systems (ERFS); upgrade to the maintenance
hangar and additional parking pads; special tools and test equipment;
ground support equipment; airframe and engine spare parts; technical
data; publications; Maintenance Work Orders/Engineering Change
Proposals (MWO/ECPs); technical assistance; transportation; training;
and other related elements of logistics and program support. The total
estimated program cost is $2.6 billion.
This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national
security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a
Major Non-North Atlantic Treaty Organization Ally that continues to be
an important strategic partner in the Middle East.
The proposed sale will improve Egypt's heavy lift capability. Egypt
will use this enhanced capability to strengthen its homeland defense
and deter regional threats. Egypt will have no difficulty absorbing
this equipment and services into its armed forces.
The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the
basic military balance in the region.
The principal contractor will be Boeing Helicopter Company,
Philadelphia, PA. There are no known offset agreements proposed in
connection with this potential sale.
Implementation of this proposed sale will require the assignment of
seven (7) U.S. Government and six (6) contractor representatives to
Egypt to support delivery of the CH-47 Chinook aircraft and to provide
support and equipment familiarization. Two (2) contractors would be
deployed to Egypt for approximately two (2) years plus options for
additional years for follow-on support of equipment and five (5)
military personnel (Technical Assistance Field Team/TAFT) would be
deployed to Egypt for approximately two (2) years.
There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a
result of this proposed sale.
Transmittal No. 22-11
Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of Offer Pursuant to Section
36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act
Annex
Item No. vii
(vii) Sensitivity of Technology:
1. The CH-47F is a twin engine, heavy lift helicopter. The CH-47F
has the common avionics architecture system (CAAS) cockpit, which
provides aircraft system, flight, mission, and communication management
systems. The CAAS includes five multifunction displays (MFDs), two
general purpose processor units (GPPUs), two control display units
(CDUs) and two data concentrator units (DCUs). The Navigation System
has two Embedded GPS/INS (EGIs), two Digital Advanced Flight Control
System (DAFCS), one AN/ARN-147 (VOR/ILS marker Beacon System), one ARN-
153 Tactical Air Navigation System (TACAN), two air data computers, and
one AN/APN-209 Radar Altimeter system. The communications suite is as
follows: two each Multi-mode radios providing VHF FM, VHF-AM, UHF, HQ
II and Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) Satellite Communications
(SATCOM), and one each High Frequency (HF) Radio. Aircraft
survivability equipment (ASE) will consist of the AN/AAR-57 Common
Missile Warning System (CMWS), and the AN/APR-39 Radar Signal Detecting
Set (RSDS).
<bullet> The AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) is the
detection component of the suite of countermeasures designed to
increase survivability of current generation combat aircraft and
specialized special operations aircraft against the threat posed by
infrared guided missiles.
<bullet> The AN/APR-39 Radar Signal Detecting Set provides the
pilot with visual and audible warning when a hostile fire-control
threat is encountered.
<bullet> The AN/AVS-6 Night Vision Device (NVD) is a third-
generation, helmet-mounted, direct-view, image-intensification device.
It enables Aviators to operate more effectively and safely during
lowlight and degraded battlefield conditions.
2. The highest level of classification of defense articles,
components, and services included in this potential sale is SECRET.
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3. If a technologically advanced adversary were to obtain knowledge
of the specific hardware and software elements, the information could
be used to develop countermeasures that might reduce weapon system
effectiveness or be used in the development of a system with similar or
advanced capabilities.
4. A determination has been made that the Government of Egypt can
provide substantially the same degree of protection for the sensitive
technology being released as the U.S. Government. This sale is
necessary in furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national
security objectives outlined in the Policy Justification.
5. All defense articles and services listed in this transmittal
have been authorized for release and export to the Government of Egypt.
[FR Doc. 2024-11035 Filed 5-17-24; 8:45 am]
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