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appropriated funds on “pseudo” FMS cases. Tese pseudo or “simulated” cases are so named because they are usually administered under the FMS structure, except that the U.S. government, not the partner nation, is the purchaser.
Building Partner Capacity, one of three FMS categories discussed previously, is composed of missions, programs, activi- ties and authorities intended to improve the ability of other nations to achieve security-oriented goals shared with the United States. It is a crucial tool used by DOD and other government agencies in furtherance of U.S. national security objectives.
Building Partner Capacity programs are funded with U.S. government appropri- ations and administered within the FMS structure. Tese programs may provide defense articles or services to other govern- ment departments and agencies under the authority of the Economy Act or other authorities to build the capacity of part- ner nation security forces and enhance their capability to conduct counterterror- ism, counterdrug and counterinsurgency operations, or to support U.S. military and stability operations, multilateral peace operations and other programs.
To execute the Building Partner Capacity program through the foreign military sales structure, a U.S. government "requesting authority," which is usually a combatant command, defines the Building Partner Capacity requirement composed of defense articles or services for a partner nation in a memorandum of request (MOR) and submits it to the DOD "implementing agency," such as the State Department, that will have overall responsibility to create the pseudo FMS case, execute it and ensure its proper completion. A foreign military sales case is a “pseudo FMS case” when the implementing agency
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Capt. Anthony McClain and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Nicole Matteson, 108th Sustainment Brigade, meet with Iraqi Army Joint Repair Parts Command commander and an Office of Security Cooperation – Iraq foreign military sales logistics officer in February 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Socorro Delgadillo, Army National Guard)
or other executive agency of the federal government executes a pseudo (or simu- lated) LOA to provide defense articles or services to another U.S. government department or agency. Tat department or agency will then deliver the articles or services identified in the original MOR to the partner nation.
Te government uses appropriated funds for the procurement of articles or services that are described in the pseudo LOA. Te appropriated funds are placed in the FMS Trust Fund by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and an autho- rized representative of the implementing agency will sign the “U.S. Signature” block on the pseudo LOA.
Because the LOA is not signed by the part- ner nation that will ultimately receive the articles or services, but serves to docu- ment the transfer of articles and services to the government requesting authority, it is often referred to as a “pseudo LOA” or a “pseudo FMS case.”
Five phases of the pseudo FMS process: 1. Assistance Request
• U.S. combatant commands and in-country security cooperation organizations identify require- ments and draft a memorandum of request with input from U.S. implementing agencies and part- ner countries.
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