Notice2025-22715
Arms Sales Notification
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Published
December 15, 2025
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Defense Department
Abstract
The DoD is publishing the unclassified text of an arms sales notification.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 238 (Monday, December 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57975-57977]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-22715]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[Transmittal No. 24-0X]
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: Urooj Zahra at (703) 695-6233,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#37424558585d194d565f455619545e41775a565e5b195a5e5b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8bfef9e4e4e1a5f1eae3f9eaa5e8e2fdcbe6eae2e7a5e6e2e7">[email protected]</span></a>, or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b9ddcadad897d7dacb97cbcacbdad4ded4cd97d5d0cacd97dad7ca94d4dbc1f9d4d8d0d597d4d0d5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="acc8dfcfcd82c2cfde82dedfdecfc1cbc1d882c0c5dfd882cfc2df81c1ced4ecc1cdc5c082c1c5c0">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 with attached Transmittal 24-
0X.
Dated: December 10, 2025.
Stephanie J. Bost,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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Transmittal No. 24-0X
REPORT OF ENHANCEMENT OR UPGRADE OF SENSITIVITY OF TECHNOLOGY OR
CAPABILITY (SEC. 36(B)(5)(C), AECA)
(i) Purchaser: Government of Spain
(ii) Sec. 36(b)(1), AECA Transmittal No.: 22-09
Date: March 15, 2022
Implementing Agency: Navy
Funding Source: National Funds
(iii) Description: On March 15, 2022, Congress was notified by
congressional certification transmittal number 22-09 of the possible
sale under Section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act of Spain's
request to procure eight (8) MH-60R Multi-Mission helicopters; twenty
(20) T-700-GE-401C engines (16 installed, 4 spares); thirty-two (32)
AGM-114R(N) Hellfire missiles, all up rounds; two (2) Hellfire II
Captive Air Training Missiles (CATM); one hundred (100) WGU-59/B
Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II Guidance Sections, all
up rounds; eight (8) Link 16 Multifunctional Information Distribution
Systems Joint Tactical Radio Systems (MIDS JTRS) BU 2 (8 installed);
and four (4) Airborne Low Frequency Sonars (ALFS) (4 installed on 4
aircraft). Also included were M514 impulse cartridge/cartridge actuated
devices; MJ20 cartridge actuated thruster/cartridge actuated devices;
WB53 fire extinguisher cartridge/cartridge actuated devices; CCU-136A/A
impulse cartridges; M299 Hellfire missile launchers; GAU-21 crew served
guns (including pintle and laser pointer); LAU-61 digital rocket
launchers; M152 High Explosive warheads for airborne 2.75 rockets;
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MK66 MOD 4, 2.75-inch rocket motors; rocket motors, 2.75-inch, MK-66-4
inert; WTU-1B inert warheads (HA23); AN/ARC-210 RT-2036 radios with
Communications Security (COMSEC); AN/AAR-47 missile warning systems;
AN/SSQ-62F sonobuoys; AN/SSQ-53G sonobuoys; AN/SSQ-36B sonobuoys; SRQ-4
Hawklink radio terminals with Hawklink Crypto Control Modules; AN/APX-
123 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) transponders; AN/ALE-47
dispenser, Electronic Countermeasures; Advanced Data Transfer Systems
(ADTS); AN/AAS-44C(V) Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems; Identification
Friend or Foe Mode \4/5\ Cryptographic Applique, KIV-78; Joint Mission
Planning Systems (JMPS); Embedded Global Positioning System/Precise
Positioning Service (GPS/PPS)/Inertial Navigation Systems (EGI) with
Selective Availability/Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM); Airborne Low
Frequency Sonars (ALFS) (aircraft provisions only for 4 aircraft); AN/
ARQ-59 Hawklink radio terminals; Training Simulators/Operational
Machine Interface Assistants (ATS/OMIA); tactical operational flight
trainer; AN/ALQ-210 Electronic Support Measures (ESM) systems; APS-
153(V) multi-mode radars; spare engine containers; spare and repair
parts; support and test equipment; communications equipment; ferry
support; publications and technical documentation; personnel training
and training equipment; United States (U.S.) Government and contractor
engineering, technical, and logistics support services; obsolescence
engineering, integration, and test activities required to ensure
readiness for the production of the Spanish MH-60R helicopters; and
other related elements of logistics and program support. The total
estimated program cost was $950 million. Major Defense Equipment (MDE)
constituted $425 million of this total.
This transmittal notifies: 1) replacement of the previously
notified non-MDE EGI with SAASM for, twenty-four (24) MDE EGI with
SAASM; and 2) replacement of the previously notified twenty (20) MDE T-
700-GE-401C engines for twenty (20) MDE T-700-401D engines. The
following non-MDE is also included in this notification: Infrared Zoom
Laser Illuminator Designators (IZLID); AN/PYQ-10 Simple Key Loaders
(SKL); and other related elements of logistics and program support. The
estimated MDE value will increase by $50 million to a revised $475
million. However, this increase will not cause an increase in the
estimated total case value, which will remain $950 million.
(iv) Significance: This notification is being provided as the
additional items were not enumerated in the original notification. The
proposed sale will improve Spain's capability to meet current and
future threats. This proposed sale will provide the capability to
perform anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare missions along with the
ability to perform secondary missions including vertical replenishment,
search and rescue, and communications relay, and will bolster the
Spanish Navy's ability to support NATO and remain interoperable with
the U.S. and the NATO alliance.
(v) Justification: This proposed sale will support the foreign
policy and national security objectives of the U.S. by helping to
improve the security of a NATO Ally which is an important force for
political stability and economic progress in Europe.
(vi) Sensitivity of Technology:
The Sensitivity of Technology Statement contained in the original
notification applies to items reported here.
The highest level of classification of defense articles,
components, and services included in this potential sale is SECRET.
(vii) Date Report Delivered to Congress: October 25, 2024
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