The executive order establishes a policy to improve accountability and transparency throughout the foreign defense sales system, consolidate parallel decision-making when determining which military capabilities the United States will choose to provide, reduce rules and regulations involved in the development, execution, and monitoring of foreign defense sales and transfer cases, increase government-industry collaboration to achieve cost and schedule efficiencies, advance United States competitiveness abroad, revitalize the defense industrial base, and lower unit costs for the United States and its allies. The order requires that the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, develop a list of priority partners for conventional arms transfers and issue updated guidance to Chiefs of United States Diplomatic Missions regarding this list. It also requires the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense to review, update, and reissue the lists of priority partners and military end-items on an annual basis. The order further directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense to develop a single electronic system to track all DCS export license requests and ongoing FMS efforts throughout the case life cycle within 120 days of the date of this order.
Read the full text of the order at the whitehouse.gov website.