Sec. 4323. Annual estimate and justification for sales program
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Except as provided in subsection (d), not later than February 1 of each year, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees, as a part of the annual presentation materials for security assistance programs proposed for the next fiscal year, a report which sets forth— an Arms Sales Proposal covering all sales and licensed commercial exports under this title of major weapons or weapons-related defense equipment for $7,000,000 or more, or of any other weapons or weapons-related defense equipment for $25,000,000 or more, which are considered eligible for approval during the current calendar year and are deemed most likely actually to result in the issuance of a letter of offer or of an export license during such year; an estimate of the total amount of sales and licensed commercial exports expected to be made to each foreign country from the United States; the United States national security considerations involved in expected sales or licensed commercial exports to each country, an analysis of the relationship between anticipated sales to each country and arms control efforts concerning such country and an analysis of the impact of such anticipated sales on the stability of the region that includes such country; an estimate with regard to the international volume of arms traffic to and from countries purchasing arms as set forth in paragraphs
(1)and (2), together with best estimates of the sale and delivery of weapons and weapons-related defense equipment by all major arms suppliers to all major recipient countries during the preceding calendar year; an estimate of the aggregate dollar value and quantity of defense articles and defense services, military education and training, grant military assistance, and credits and guarantees, to be furnished by the United States to each foreign country and international organization in the next fiscal year; and for each country that is proposed to be furnished credits or guaranties under this Act in the next fiscal year and that has been approved for cash flow financing in excess of $100,000,000 as of October 1 of the current fiscal year— the amount of such approved cash flow financing; a description of administrative ceilings and controls applied, and a description of the financial resources otherwise available to such country to pay such approved cash flow financing; an analysis and description of the services performed during the preceding fiscal year by officers and employees of the United States Government carrying out functions on a full-time basis under this Act for which reimbursement is provided under section 4402(b) or section 4311(a), including the number of personnel involved in performing such services; the status of— each loan and each contract of guaranty or insurance theretofore made under this title, predecessor Acts, or any Act authorizing international security assistance, with respect to which there remains outstanding any unpaid obligation or potential liability; and each extension of credit for the procurement of defense articles or defense services, and of each contract of guaranty in connection with any such procurement, theretofore made under this title or predecessor Acts with respect to which there remains outstanding any unpaid obligation or potential liability; a detailed accounting of all articles, services, credits, guarantees, or any other form of assistance furnished by the United States to each country and international organization, including payments to the United Nations, during the preceding fiscal year for the detection and clearance of landmines, including activities relating to the furnishing of education, training, and technical assistance for the detection and clearance of landmines; and for each provision of law making funds available or authorizing appropriations for demining activities described in subparagraph (A), an analysis and description of the objectives and activities undertaken during the preceding fiscal year, including the number of personnel involved in performing such activities; a list of weapons systems that are significant military equipment, and numbers thereof, that are believed likely to become available for transfer as excess defense articles during the next 12 months; and such other information as the President may deem necessary. Not later than 30 days following the receipt of a request made by any of the appropriate congressional committees for additional information with respect to any information submitted pursuant to subsection (a), the President shall submit such information to such committees. The President shall make every effort to submit all of the information required by subsection
(a)or
(b)wholly in unclassified form. Whenever the President submits any such information in classified form, the President shall submit such classified information in an addendum and shall also submit simultaneously a detailed summary, in unclassified form, of such classified information. The information required by subsection (a)(4) of this section shall be transmitted to Congress not later than April 1 of each year.