International Agreements: DOD Has Opportunities to Improve Internal Communication and Oversight
What GAO Found The Department of Defense (DOD) uses international agreements and arrangements to achieve political, economic, and military objectives. For example, these could include cooperatively developing and producing a military system with a foreign partner. From fiscal years 2021 through 2025, DOD established 303 acquisition-related international arrangements with an associated dollar value of $64 billion. However, both the number and dollar value of these arrangements declined over this period. DOD officials said that factors like personnel shortages and lengthy review and approval timelines contributed to this decline. Decline in DOD International Arrangements, Fiscal Years (FY) 20.
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What GAO Found The Department of Defense (DOD) uses international agreements and arrangements to achieve political, economic, and military objectives.
For example, these could include cooperatively developing and producing a military system with a foreign partner.
From fiscal years 2021 through 2025, DOD established 303 acquisition-related international arrangements with an associated dollar value of $64 billion.
However, both the number and dollar value of these arrangements declined over this period.
DOD officials said that factors like personnel shortages and lengthy review and approval timelines contributed to this decline.
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