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Security Assistance: Excess Defense Articles for Foreign Countries

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 23, 1993
Report No. NSIAD-93-164FS
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Summary:

Excess defense articles are items no longer needed by the U.S. armed forces that are either sold or given to foreign countries. Because the Defense Department (DOD) lacks a data management system to track transfers of these items, it is hard to determine the number and value of excess defense articles transferred to foreign countries in any fiscal year. In addition, the military services do not routinely follow DOD's pricing directives and have sometimes understated the value of the items transferred. GAO, taking into account the unreliability of DOD data, estimates that the value of excess defense articles transferred to the seven countries in its study--Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Morocco, and Oman--is at least $400 million so far.

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