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Federal Register/Vol. 84, No. 245/Friday, December 20, 2019 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 245 / Friday, December 20, 2019 / Notices 70165 and repair parts; support and test are no known offset agreements in five time duration selections up to eight equipment; communication equipment; connection with this potential sale. hours. publications and technical Implementation of this proposed sale 4. The AN/SSQ-62 Directional documentation; personnel training and will not require the assignment of Command Activated Sonobuoy System training equipment; U.S. Government additional U.S. Government or (DICASS) sonobuoy is an A-size, and contractor engineering, technical, contractor representatives to Denmark. expendable, non-repairable, directional and logistics support services; and other There will be no adverse impact on active sonobuoy. The DICASS, in related elements of logistical and U.S. defense readiness as a result of this conjunction with the monitoring unit’s program support. proposed sale. signal processing equipment, provides (iv) Military Department: Navy (DE-P- Transmittal No. 19-44 active sonar range, bearing, and Doppler LBT) information on a submerged contact. (v) Prior Related Cases, if any: DE-P- Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of The DICASS sonobuoy is designed to SAE and DE-P-GBP Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the develop and maintain attack criteria. (vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, Arms Export Control Act While often employed in multiple Offered, or Agreed to be Paid: None Annex sonobuoy patterns; the DICASS (vii) Sensitivity of Technology Item No. vii sonobuoy is designed to permit single Contained in the Defense Article or buoy attack criteria. The flexibility Defense Services Proposed to be Sold: (vii) Sensitivity of Technology: inherent in the monitoring unit’s control See Attached Annex. 1. The AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low over the various sonobuoy functions (viii) Date Report Delivered to Frequency Sonar (ALFS) is the primary enables optimum sonobuoy Congress: August 27, 2019 undersea warfare sensor of the MH-60R employment over a wide range of * As defined in Section 47(6) of the multi-mission helicopter. This environmental and target conditions. Arms Export Control Act. integrated dipping sonar system enables 5. If a technologically advanced the MH-60R to accomplish the assigned adversary were to obtain knowledge of POLICY JUSTIFICATION Anti-Submarine Warfare missions of the specific hardware and software Denmark—Airborne Low Frequency submarine detection, tracking, elements, the information could be used localization, and classification. It also Sonar System and Sonobuoys to develop countermeasures, which performs missions relating to acoustic might reduce weapon system The Government of Denmark has intercept, underwater communications, effectiveness or be used in the requested to buy nine (9) AN/AQS-22 and environmental data acquisition. development of a system with similar or Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS) Acoustics algorithms are used to process advanced capabilities. systems; six hundred (600) AN/SSQ-36/ dipping sonar and sonobuoy data for 6. A determination has been made 53/62 Sonobuoys; spare and repair target tracking and for the Acoustics that the recipient country can provide parts; support and test equipment; Mission Planner (AMP), which is a substantially the same degree of communication equipment; tactical aid employed to optimize the protection for the sensitive technology publications and technical deployment of the sonobuoy and the documentation; personnel training and dipping sonar. Acoustics hardware is being released as the U.S. Government. training equipment; U.S. Government Unclassified. The acoustics system is This sale is necessary in furtherance of and contractor engineering, technical, classified up to Secret when the U.S. foreign policy and national and logistics support services; and other environmental and threat databases are security objectives outlined in the related elements of logistical and loaded and/or the system is processing Policy Justification. program support. The total estimated acoustic data. ALFS hardware and 7. All defense articles and services program cost is $200 million. support equipment, test equipment, and listed in this transmittal have been This proposed sale will support the maintenance spares are unclassified. authorized for release and export to foreign policy and national security Technical data and documentation for Denmark. objectives of the United States by the ALFS weapon system is classified [FR Doc. 2019–27491 Filed 12–19–19; 8:45 am] helping to improve the military up to Secret. BILLING CODE 5001–06–P capability of Denmark, a NATO ally that 2. The AN/SSQ-36 Bathythermograph is an important force for ensuring (BT) sonobuoy is an A-size, expendable political stability and economic progress and non repairable sonobuoy. The BT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE within Europe. sonobuoy is an expendable thermal The proposed sale will improve gradient measurement sonobuoy that Office of the Secretary Denmark’s capability to meet current operates over Radio Frequency (RF) [Transmittal No. 19–38] and future threats from enemy weapon channels. It consists of a thermistor systems. The ALFS and Sonobuoys will temperature probe that descends Arms Sales Notification provide the capability to perform anti- through the bottom of the sonobuoy submarine warfare missions. Denmark canister, producing a continuous AGENCY: Defense Security Cooperation will use the enhanced capability as a reading of temperature versus depth, Agency, Department of Defense. deterrent to regional threats and to and transmits the readings to an aircraft ACTION: Arms sales notice. strengthen its homeland defense. or nearby vessel. The thermistor SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is Denmark will have no difficulty temperature probe can descend up to publishing the unclassified text of an absorbing this equipment into its armed 2625 feet. forces. 3. The AN/SSQ-53 Directional arms sales notification. The proposed sale of this equipment Frequency Analysis and Recording FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and support will not alter the basic (DIFAR) sonobuoy is an A-size, Karma Job at [email protected] military balance in the region. expendable and non-repairable or (703) 697–8976. The principal contractor will be directional passive sonobuoy. Basic SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission capabilities include four hydrophone 36(b)(1) arms sales notification is Systems in Oswego, New York. There depth selections up to 1000 feet with published to fulfill the requirements of VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:30 Dec 19, 2019 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20DEN1.SGM 20DEN1 jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES 70166 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 245 / Friday, December 20, 2019 / Notices section 155 of Public Law 104–164 19–38 with attached Policy Justification Dated: December 16, 2019. dated July 21, 1996. The following is a and Sensitivity of Technology. Aaron T. Siegel, copy of a letter to the Speaker of the Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison House of Representatives, Transmittal Officer, Department of Defense. BILLING CODE 5001–06–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:30 Dec 19, 2019 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20DEN1.SGM 20DEN1 jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES EN20DE19.003</GPH> Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 245 / Friday, December 20, 2019 / Notices 70167 BILLING CODE 5001–06–C KMU-572F/B Tail Kits; one hundred Transmittal No. 19-38 Transmittal No. 19-38 eighty (180) MXU-651B/B Air Foil Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of Groups (AFG), GBU-10; four thousand Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the one hundred twenty five (4,125) MXU- Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act Arms Export Control Act, as amended 650C/B AFGs, GBU-12; four thousand three hundred and five (4,305) MAU- Annex (i) Prospective Purchaser: Kingdom of 169L/B Computer Control Groups Item No. vii Morocco (CCG), GBU-10,-12,-16; and five (ii) Total Estimated Value: (vii) Sensitivity of Technology: thousand one hundred seventy-eight 1. Sensitive and/or classified (up to Major Defense Equipment * $187 million (5,178) FMU-152 Fuzes. Also included SECRET) elements of the proposed sale Other .................................... $ 22 million are flares M-206, Flares MJU-7A/B, include munitions and support TOTAL .............................. $209 million Impulse Cartridges BBU-36, Impulse equipment: MK82-1 Bomb (Tritonal), Cartridges BBU-35/B, Bomb Sensor MAU-169L/B, MXU-651B/B, MXU- (iii) Description and Quantity or DSU-33C/B, chaff, bomb components, 650C/B, Fuzes FMU-152A/B, and JDAM Quantities of Articles or Services under spares, repair parts, support equipment, MK-84 KMU-572 F/B. The hardware, Consideration for Purchase: software, and data identified are Major Defense Equipment (MDE): publications and technical documentation, engineering technical classified to protect vulnerabilities, Five thousand eight hundred and ten design and performance parameters, and (5,810) MK82-1 Bomb (Tritonal) and support services, and other related elements of logistics, transportation, and other similar critical information. Three hundred (300) MK84-4 Bomb 2. GBU-10/12/16/58 Paveway II program support. The estimated cost is (Tritonal) (PWII), a Laser Guided Bomb (LGB), is $209 million. One hundred and five (105) Joint Direct a maneuverable, free-fall weapon that Attack Munitions (JDAM) KMU-572F/ This proposed sale will support the guides to a spot of laser energy reflected B Tail Kits foreign policy and national security of off the target. The LGB is delivered like One hundred eighty (180) MXU-651B/B the United States by helping to improve a normal general purpose (GP) warhead, Air Foil Group (AFG), GBU-10 the security of a major Non-NATO ally and the semi-active guidance corrects Four thousand one hundred twenty five that continues to be an important force for many of the normal errors inherent (4,125) MXU-650C/B AFG, GBU-12 for political stability and economic in any delivery system. Laser Four thousand three hundred and five progress in Africa.
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