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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

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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

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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. designation for the LGB consists of a (4,305) MAU-169L/B Computer Computer Control Group (CCG) that is Control Group (CCG), GBU-10,-12,-16 The proposed sale will improve Morocco’s capability to meet current not warhead specific, and a warhead Five thousand one hundred seventy- specific Air Foil Group (AFG) that and future threats of terror from violent eight (5,178) FMU-152 Fuze attaches to the nose and tail of a GP extremist organizations prevalent Non-MDE: bomb body. The PWII can use either the Also included are flares M-206, Flares throughout the region. Additionally, the FMU-152 or FMU-139D/B fuzes. The MJU-7A/B, Impulse Cartridges BBU-36, additional munitions provided by this overall weapon is CONFIDENTIAL. The Impulse Cartridges BBU-35/B, Bomb sale will improve interoperability with GBU-10 is a 2,000 lb (MK-84 or BLU-117 Sensor DSU-33C/B, chaff, bomb the United States and other regional B/B) GP bomb body fitted with the components, spares, repair parts, allies and enhance Morocco’s ability to MXU-650 AFG, and MAU-209C/B or support equipment, publications and undertake coalition operations, as it has MAU-168L/B CCGs to guide to its laser technical documentation, engineering done in the past in flying sorties against designated target. MK-82 bomb body’s technical and support services, and ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Morocco will hardware are UNCLASSIFIED. other related elements of logistics, have no difficulty absorbing these 3. Joint Direct Attack Munitions transportation, and program support. additional munitions and services into (JDAM) is a Joint Service weapon which (iv) Military Department: Air Force its armed forces. uses an onboard GPS-aided Inertial (MO-D-AAG and MO-D-AAE) The proposed sale of this equipment Navigation System (INS) Guidance Set (v) Prior Related Cases, if any: MO-D- with a MK82, MK83, MK84, BLU-109, SAY will not alter the basic military balance in the region. BLU-100, BLU-111, BLU-117, BLU-126 (vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, (Navy) or BLU-129 warhead. The Offered, or Agreed to be Paid: None The principal contractors will be Guidance Set, when combined with a (vii) Sensitivity of Technology Raytheon USA, Orbital ATK (USA), warhead and appropriate fuze, forms a Contained in the Defense Article or General Dynamics, Kilgore Cheming JDAM Guided Bomb Unit (GBU). The Defense Services Proposed to be Sold: Groupe (USA), Cheming Groupe (USA), JDAM Guidance Set gives these bombs See Attached Annex. and Kaman Precision Products (USA). adverse weather capability with (viii) Date Report Delivered to The purchaser typically requests offsets, improved accuracy. The JDAM weapon Congress: September 11, 2019 however there are no known offset can be delivered from modest standoff * As defined in Section 47(6) of the agreements at this time in connection ranges at high or low altitudes against Arms Export Control Act. with this potential sale. a variety of land and surface targets POLICY JUSTIFICATION Implementation of this proposed sale during the day or night. After release, will not require U.S. Government or JDAM autonomously guides to a target Morocco—Additional F-16 Ammunition using the resident GPS-aided INS contractor representatives to be assigned The Government of Morocco has guidance system. JDAM is capable of to Morocco. requested a possible sale of five receiving target coordinates via thousand eight hundred and ten (5,810) There will be no adverse impact on preplanned mission data from the MK82-1 Bombs (Tritonal); three U.S. defense readiness as a result of this delivery aircraft, by onboard aircraft hundred (300) MK84-4 Bombs proposed sale. sensors (i.e. FLIR, Radar, etc.) during (Tritonal); one hundred and five (105) captive carry, or from a third party Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) source via manual or automated aircrew

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cockpit entry. The JDAM as an All Up sensitive technology being released as ACTION: Arms sales notice. Round is UNCLASSIFIED; technical the U.S. Government. This sale is data for JDAM is classified up to necessary in furtherance of the U.S. SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is SECRET. foreign policy and national security publishing the unclassified text of an 4. Joint Programmable Fuze (JPF) objectives outlined in the Policy arms sales notification. FMU-152 is a multi-delay, multi-arm Justification. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and proximity sensor compatible with 7. All defense articles and services Karma Job at [email protected] general purpose blast, frag and listed in this transmittal are authorized or (703) 697–8976. hardened-target penetrator weapons. for release and export to the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This The JPF settings are cockpit selectable Government of Morocco. 36(b)(1) arms sales notification is in flight when used with JDAM [FR Doc. 2019–27480 Filed 12–19–19; 8:45 am] published to fulfill the requirements of weapons. BILLING CODE 5001–06–P section 155 of Public Law 104–164 5. If a technologically advanced dated July 21, 1996. The following is a adversary were to obtain knowledge of copy of a letter to the Speaker of the the specific hardware and software DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE House of Representatives, Transmittal elements, the information could be used 19–43 with attached Policy Justification to develop countermeasures that might Office of the Secretary and Sensitivity of Technology. reduce weapon system effectiveness or be used in the development of a system [Transmittal No. 19–43] Dated: December 17, 2019. with similar or advanced capabilities. Arms Sales Notification Aaron T. Siegel, 6. A determination has been made Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison that Morocco can provide substantially AGENCY: Defense Security Cooperation Officer, Department of Defense. the same degree of protection for the Agency, Department of Defense. BILLING CODE 5001–06–P

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