The tasking memo approved by Secretary Austin, named “Tiger Team”, is a central part of the Department’s commitment to improve the FMS system and advance the direction of the 2022 National Defense Strategy to break down barriers to working with allies and partners.

Tiger Team conducted detailed analysis across a number of case studies at all phases of the FMS process, providing best practices to benchmark and identify systemic challenges across the US Defense Department’s Foreign Military Sales ecosystem.

The team reviewed the findings of historical reform efforts and also solicited and incorporated feedback from allies and partner nations and US industry on ways to improve the efficiency of DoD’s implementation of the FMS process.

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