4. Department of Defense · Notable · Needs Congress
Create a funding mechanism to incentivize exportability in initial planning
Printed page 101 4. Department of Defense
“Create a funding mechanism to incentivize exportability in initial planning, which can be recouped after future FMS transactions.”
What has happened
- Partially done
Public Law 119-21 sec. 20004(a)(42) appropriates $500 million, available through FY2029, "for the expansion of the Defense Exportability Features program" — the standing mechanism that pays for exportability design work up front and recoups it from later foreign military sales. Enacted funding for the mechanism the Quote wants; no new statutory recoupment authority was created, and the FY2026 NDAA carries only $6.78 million in the Defense Exportability Program research line.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
The Defense Exportability Features program is the existing recoupable mechanism the Quote is reaching for. Congress funded it heavily; nobody created a new one.
This item sits in the page 101–102 foreign military sales cluster (#157, #158, #159, #160, #161, #162), whose shared instruments are EO 14268 (2025-04-09), EO 14383 (2026-02-06), the State Department’s ITAR rulemakings and FY2026 NDAA title XII subtitle B. One negative search covered the whole cluster.
- Action
- create
- Object
- exportability funding mechanism for foreign military sales
- ID
- 158