The State Department has approved a possible $1.33 billion military sale to Poland, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said April 29. The sale includes “AIM-120D Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles" and related elements of logistics and program support. The principal contractor will be RTX Corp.
The State Department has approved a possible $280 million military sale to Romania, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said April 28. The sale includes a “PATRIOT Air Defense System" and related equipment, and the principal contractors will be RTX Corp. and Lockheed Martin.
The State Department last week released its annual report to Congress of authorized exports of defense goods and services to foreign countries and international organizations during FY 2024. The report covers direct commercial sales of licensed items for permanent export under the Arms Export Control Act and includes export statistics for each country and organization, including aggregate dollar values of the exports, their quantities and data on the actual shipments of those licensed exports.
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls this week released its notifications to Congress of recently proposed export licenses. The notifications, which cover licenses submitted from April through June and July through September of 2024, include exports to Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Finland, Israel, Canada, Ukraine, Norway, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere.
The State Department has approved a possible $2.19 billion military sale to the Netherlands, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said April 25. The sale includes “Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles and related equipment,” and the principal contractor will be RTX Corp.
Foreign countries' retaliatory tariffs against the Trump administration’s new global tariffs could cut U.S. exports of goods covered by the World Trade Organization’s Information Technology Agreement by at least $56 billion a year, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said April 23.
The State Department has approved a possible $46 million military sale to Ireland, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said April 23. The sale includes “FGM-148 Javelin Missiles and Lightweight Command Launch Units and related elements of logistics and program support,” and the principal contractor will be the Javelin Joint Venture between Lockheed Martin and RTX Corp.
President Donald Trump criticized business officials who have said his tariffs actions are damaging, bragged about countries and executives asking for breaks, and made a list of non-tariff cheating he wants countries to end, all on social media over the weekend.
A purported draft executive order to reorganize the State Department that served as the basis for a New York Times article is a "fake document,” an agency spokesperson said in an email April 21.
The State Department has approved a possible $825 million military sale to Morocco, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said April 15. The sale includes “FIM-92K Stinger Block I missiles and related equipment,” and the principal contractors will be RTX Corp. and Lockheed Martin.