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SEC. 887. NOTIONAL MILESTONES AND STANDARD
TIMELINES FOR CONTRACTS FOR FOREIGN MILITARY SALES.
(a) Establishment.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of
Defense shall establish specific notional milestones and
standard timelines for the Department of Defense to achieve
such milestones in its processing of a foreign military sale
(as authorized under chapter 2 of the Arms Export Control Act
(22 U.S.C. 2761 et seq.)). Such milestones and timelines—
(A) may vary depending on the
complexity of the foreign military sale; and
(B) shall cover the period beginning on the date of receipt
of a complete letter of request (as described in chapter 5
of the Security Assistance Management Manual of the Defense
Security Cooperation Agency) from a foreign country and
ending on the date of the final delivery of a defense
article or defense service sold through the foreign military
sale.
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a
report describing the milestones and timelines developed
pursuant to paragraph (1) of this section.
(b) Submissions To Congress.—
(1) QUARTERLY NOTIFICATION.—During the
period beginning 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act and ending on December 31, 2021, the Secretary shall
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress, on a
quarterly basis, a report that includes a list of each foreign
military sale with a value greater than or equal to the dollar
threshold for congressional notification under section 36 of
the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2776)—
(A) for which the final delivery of
a defense article or defense service has not been completed;
and
(B) that has not met a standard timeline to achieve a
notional milestone as established under subsection (a).
(2) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than
November 1, 2019, and annually thereafter until December 31,
2021, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees
of Congress a report that summarizes—
(A) the number, set forth separately
by dollar value and notional milestone, of foreign military
sales that met the standard timeline to achieve a notional
milestone established under subsection (a) during the
preceding fiscal year; and
(B) the number, set forth separately by dollar value and
notional milestone, of each foreign military sale that did
not meet the standard timeline to achieve a notional
milestone established under subsection (a), and a
description of any extenuating factors explaining why such a
sale did not achieve such milestone.
(c) Definitions.—In this section—
(1) the terms “defense article” and
“defense service” have the meanings given those terms,
respectively, in section 47 of the Arms Export Control Act (22
U.S.C. 2794); and
(2) the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—
(A) the Committee on Armed Services
and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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Notional milestones and standard
timelines for contracts for foreign military sales (sec. 887)
The House bill contained a provision (sec.
864) that would require the Secretary of Defense to develop
standard timeline milestones for the foreign military sales
(FMS) process, including related contracting activities.
Timeline milestones would vary by the complexity of the FMS
case. This provision would also require the Secretary of Defense
to submit quarterly reports to the congressional defense
committees, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate any FMS cases that require congressional notification, as
well as an annual report on the number of FMS cases that met and
did not meet timeline milestones during the previous fiscal
year.
The Senate amendment contained no
similar provision.
The Senate recedes with a technical
amendment. |
