Sec. 4376. End-use monitoring of defense articles and defense services
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In order to improve accountability with respect to defense articles and defense services sold, leased, or exported under this Act and predecessor Acts, the President shall establish a program which provides for the end-use monitoring of the articles and services. To the extent practicable, the program shall be— established and carried out in accordance with the standards that apply for identifying high-risk exports for regular end-use verification developed under section 4374 (commonly referred to as the Blue Lantern program); and designed to provide reasonable assurance that— the recipient is complying with the requirements imposed by the United States Government with respect to use, transfers, and security of defense articles and defense services; and the articles and services are being used for the purposes for which they are provided.
In carrying out the program established under subsection (a), the President shall ensure that the program— provides for the end-use verification of defense articles and defense services that incorporate sensitive technology, defense articles and defense services that are particularly vulnerable to diversion or other misuse, or defense articles or defense services whose diversion or other misuse could have significant consequences; and prevents the diversion (through reverse engineering or other means) of technology incorporated in defense articles.
As part of the annual congressional budget justification submitted under section 8302, the President shall transmit to Congress a report describing the actions taken to implement this section, including a detailed accounting of the costs and number of personnel associated with the monitoring program. For purposes of this section, defense articles and defense services sold, leased, or exported under this Act includes defense articles and defense services that are transferred to a third country or other third party and the numbers, range, and finding of end-use monitoring of United States transfers of small arms and light weapons.