According to DSCA, they cleared $2.9 billion of Foreign Military Financing-funded cases; $5.0 billion in Building Partner Capacity-funded cases; and $25.7 billion, funded by partner nations.
DSCA director Vice Adm. Joseph Rixey claimed that the $13 billion drop was not indicative of an agency failure.
"We don't look at sales like a benchmark we're trying to capture. It's not a number we're trying to go for. Sales is really a fundamental result of foreign policy. We just have to understand what kind of workforce we're going to need to prosecute those sales," Rixey said.
"It's nothing more than a tool for us to anticipate what we're going to anticipate and work with," he stated.
The world's number-one arms dealer in 2016 processed $785 million in export of bombs and missiles, including the GBU-10 to the UAE; $1.2 billion in AIM-120D air-to-air missiles sold to Australia; and $1.15 billion from Saudi Arabia, for M1A2S tanks and M88Al/A2 vehicles, among other deals.
