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- Major Defense Equipment (MDE)
- Significant Military Equipment (SME) that originally cost more than $50 million to develop or had a production cost of over $200 million.
- Military Assistance
- The principal components of the U.S. military assistance programs are Foreign Military Sales (FMS), Foreign Military Financing (FMF), International Military Education and Training Programs (IMET), and transfers of Excess Defense Articles (EDA). Draw-downs of defense assets, directed by the president in response to urgent requirements, are also administered under the auspices of the military assistance program.
- Military Critical Technologies List (MCTL)
- A list of technologies considered to be critical to maintaining superior U.S. military capabilities by DoD's Defense Security Service (www.dtic.mil/mctl). The MCTL contains definitions of thresholds that make technology militarily critical. The acquisition or development of any of these technologies by a potential adversary would lead to the significant enhancement of the military-industrial capabilities of that adversary to the potential detriment of U.S. security interests. It includes, for example, technologies associated with the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile delivery systems. The list is not the same as the U.S. Munitions List (USML).
- Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
- Founded in 1987 and consisting of 33 countries. It is intended to limit the proliferation of missiles capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. has incorporated the MTCR list of products to be controlled into the USML.
- MOU Attaché Group
- This group consists of the defense cooperation attaches in Washington whose countries have reciprocal procurement MOUS with the U.S. The group works with DoD to purse policies that encourage defense cooperation and a two-way street in defense procurement. The current chairperson of the group is Gertie Arts of the Royal Netherlands Embassy, who can be reached at gertie.arts@minbuza.nl.
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- National Disclosure Policy (NDP)
- The rules governing the release of classified information to foreign governments. An interagency mechanism within the Defense Department reviews requests for exceptions to NDP, and determines what information will be disclosed under what conditions to potential foreign customers.
- North American Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Formed in April 1949 as a defensive alliance of European and North American countries in response to the Soviet Bloc. In recent years, NATO has increasingly been conducting peace-keeping operations both within and without the European theater. NATO's Web page is available at www.NATO.int.
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