Reforming Foreign Defense Sales To Improve Speed and Accountability, Executive Order 14268, April 9, 2025
Directs a phased implementation of several tasks to help improve the reliable and speedy delivery of American defense products to foreign partners to achieve help foreign policy objectives and strengthen American competitiveness, efficiency, and the defense industrial base. Reviews barriers to competitiveness, such as the Missile Technology Control Regime on Category I items and FMS-only lists.
From the Order:
Section 1. Purpose. To serve the interests of the American people, the United States must maintain the world's strongest and most technologically advanced military through a dynamic defense industrial base, coupled with a robust network of capable partners and allies. A rapid and transparent foreign defense sales system that enables effective defense cooperation between the United States and our chosen partners is foundational to these objectives. Reforming this system would simultaneously strengthen the security capabilities of our allies and invigorate our own defense industrial base. This mutually reinforcing approach would enhance United States warfighting capabilities by fostering healthy American supply chains, domestic production levels, and technological development.