Sec. 4. Performance measures to monitor foreign military sales program
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The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and in consultation with the heads of other relevant components of the Department of Defense, shall enhance the ability of the Department of Defense to monitor the performance of the foreign military sales program by taking the following actions: Develop performance measures to monitor the timeliness of deliveries of defense articles and defense services to purchasers in accordance with the delivery schedule for each sale under the foreign military sales program.
Identify key choke points, processes, and tasks that contribute most significantly to delays, shortcomings, and issues in the foreign military sales program. Review existing performance measures for the foreign military sales program to determine whether such measures need to be updated, replaced, or supplemented to ensure that all key aspects of the foreign military sales program’s efficiency and service of United States national interests are able to be monitored and informed by reliable data.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that lists the performance measures developed and identified under subsection (a). The report required by paragraph
(1)shall— define the performance measures, including targets set for the performance measures; identify the data systems used to monitor the performance measures; identify any concerns related to the reliability of the data used to monitor the performance measures; and report the results for the performance measures for the most recent fiscal year. If the performance measures developed and identified under subsection
(a)cannot be included in the report required by paragraph
(1)for the most recent fiscal year based on reliable and accessible data, the report shall include a plan for ensuring that such data will be monitored within a defined period of time. For each fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the report required by subsection
(b)is submitted to the congressional defense committees, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees an update of the report required by paragraph (1). Each update of the report required by paragraph
(1)shall also include the following: For any performance measures that indicate a decreased level of performance from the prior year— a description of the factors that led to such decreased level of performance; and plans to improve such level of performance. For any performance measures that remain unable to be monitored due to lack of reliable and accessible data, an update on plans to improve the monitoring of data. Not later than 180 days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, submits to the congressional defense committees the report required by subsection (b), the Comptroller General of the United States shall provide a briefing to the congressional defense committees on the report, including an evaluation of the performance measures developed and identified under subsection (a).