US defense sales internationally totaled $33.6 billion in Fiscal 2016—a large drop from Fiscal 2015’s total of $47 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday. The 2016 total included $2.9 billion in Foreign Military Financing-funded cases, $5? billion in Building Partner Capacity-funded cases, and $25.7 billion funded by partner nations, DSCA said in a release. While there’s a drop from last year, DSCA Director Vice Adm. Joseph Rixey said the three-year sales averages show a “continuing, growing sales-trend over the last decade.”
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
