52560 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 166 / Wednesday, August 26, 2020 / Notices Type of Review: Extension without is not proposing any new or revised DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE change of a currently approved collections of information pursuant to collection. this request. Office of the Secretary Affected Public: Business or other for Request for Comments: The Bureau profit. issued a 60-day Federal Register notice [Transmittal No. 20–18] Estimated Number of Respondents: on June 15, 2020, 85 FR 36188, Docket 779,073. Number: CFPB–2020–0017. No Arms Sales Notification Estimated Total Annual Burden Comments were received. Comments Hours: 6,246,866. were solicited and continue to be AGENCY: Defense Security Cooperation Abstract: The consumer disclosures invited on: (a) Whether the collection of Agency, Department of Defense. included in Regulation V are designed information is necessary for the proper to alert consumers that a financial performance of the functions of the ACTION: Arms sales notice. institution furnished negative Bureau, including whether the information about them to a consumer information will have practical utility; SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is reporting agency, that they have a right (b) The accuracy of the Bureau’s publishing the unclassified text of an to opt out of receiving marketing estimate of the burden of the collection arms sales notification. materials and credit or insurance offers, of information, including the validity of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: that their credit report was used in the methods and the assumptions used; Karma Job at [email protected] setting the material terms of credit that (c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, or (703) 697–8976. may be less favorable than the terms and clarity of the information to be offered to consumers with better credit collected; and (d) Ways to minimize the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This histories, that they maintain certain burden of the collection of information 36(b)(1) arms sales notification is rights with respect to a theft of their on respondents, including through the published to fulfill the requirements of identity that they reported to a use of automated collection techniques consumer reporting agency, that they section 155 of Public Law 104–164 or other forms of information dated July 21, 1996. The following is a maintain rights with respect to knowing technology. Comments submitted in what is in their consumer reporting copy of a letter to the Speaker of the response to this notice will be reviewed House of Representatives, Transmittal agency file, that they can request a free by OMB as part of its review of this credit report, and that they can report a 20–18 with attached Policy Justification request. All comments will become a theft of their identity to the Bureau. and Sensitivity of Technology. matter of public record. Consumers then can use the information Dated: August 13, 2020. Dated: August 20, 2020. provided to consider how and when to Aaron T. Siegel, check and use their credit reports. This Darrin King, is a routine request for OMB to renew Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Bureau of Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense. its approval of the collections of Consumer Financial Protection. information currently approved under [FR Doc. 2020–18704 Filed 8–25–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 5001–06–P this OMB control number. The Bureau BILLING CODE 4810–AM–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:41 Aug 25, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\26AUN1.SGM 26AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 166 / Wednesday, August 26, 2020 / Notices 52561 BILLING CODE 5001–06–C Non-MDE: and other related elements of logistical Transmittal No. 20-18 Also included are Electronic Warfare and program support. (iv) Military Department: Air Force Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of Systems; Command, Control, Communications, Computers and (JA-D-SGN) Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the (v) Prior Related Cases, if any: JA-D- Arms Export Control Act, as amended Intelligence/Communications, Navigation and Identification; SBC (i) Prospective Purchaser: Government (vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, Autonomic Logistics Global Support of Japan Offered, or Agreed to be Paid: None System, Autonomic Logistics (ii) Total Estimated Value: (vii) Sensitivity of Technology Information System; Flight Mission Major Defense Equipment* $11.30 billion Contained in the Defense Article or Trainer; Weapons Employment Other .................................... $11.81 billion Defense Services Proposed to be Sold: Capability, and other Subsystems, See Attached Annex. TOTAL ............................. $23.11 billion Features, and Capabilities; F-35 unique (viii) Date Report Delivered to (iii) Description and Quantity or infrared flares; reprogramming center Congress: July 9, 2020 Quantities of Articles or Services under access and F-35 Performance Based *As defined in Section 47(6) of the Consideration for Purchase: Logistics; software development/ Arms Export Control Act. integration; flight test instrumentation; Major Defense Equipment (MDE): aircraft ferry and tanker support; spare POLICY JUSTIFICATION Sixty-three (63) F-35A Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL) Aircraft and repair parts; support equipment, Japan—F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft Forty-two (42) F-35B Short Take-Off and tools and test equipment; technical data The Government of Japan has Vertical Landing (STOVL) Aircraft and publications; personnel training requested to buy sixty-three (63) F-35A One hundred ten (110) Pratt and and training equipment; U.S. Conventional Takeoff and Landing Whitney F135 Engines (includes 5 Government and contractor engineering, (CTOL) aircraft, forty-two (42) F-35B spares) technical, and logistics support services; Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:41 Aug 25, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\26AUN1.SGM 26AUN1 EN26AU20.002</GPH> 52562 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 166 / Wednesday, August 26, 2020 / Notices (STOVL) aircraft, and one hundred ten Support (ALGS) for after-aircraft infrared search and track (IRST) and (110) Pratt and Whitney F135 engines delivery. forward-looking infrared (FLIR) (includes 5 spares). Also included are There will be no adverse impact on capability for precision tracking, Electronic Warfare Systems; Command, U.S. defense readiness as a result of this weapons delivery, and bomb damage Control, Communications, Computers proposed sale. assessment (BDA). The EOTS replaces and Intelligence/Communications, multiple separate internal or podded Transmittal No. 20-18 Navigation and Identification; systems typically found on legacy Autonomic Logistics Global Support Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter aircraft. System, Autonomic Logistics of Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of d. The Electro-Optical Distributed Information System; Flight Mission the Arms Export Control Act Aperture System (EODAS) provides the pilot with full spherical coverage for air- Trainer; Weapons Employment Annex Capability, and other Subsystems, to-air and air-to-ground threat Features, and Capabilities; F-35 unique Item No. vii awareness, day/night vision infrared flares; reprogramming center (vii) Sensitivity of Technology: enhancements, a fire control capability, access and F-35 Performance Based 1. The F-35A Conventional Take Off and precision tracking of wingmen/ Logistics; software development/ and Landing (CTOL) aircraft is a single- friendly aircraft. The EODAS provides integration; flight test instrumentation; seat, singleengine, all-weather, stealth, data directly to the pilot’s helmet as aircraft ferry and tanker support; spare fifth-generation, multirole aircraft. The well as the mission system. e. The Electronic Warfare (EW) system and repair parts; support equipment, F-35B Short Take-Off and Vertical is a reprogrammable, integrated system tools and test equipment; technical data Landing (STOVL) variant is capable of and publications; personnel training that provides radar warning and operating from short airfields and ships. electronic support measures (ESM) and training equipment; U.S. Both variants contain sensitive Government and contractor engineering, along with a fully integrated technology including the low observable countermeasures (CM) system. The EW technical, and logistics support services; airframe/outer mold line, the Pratt and and other related elements of logistics system is the primary subsystem used to Whitney F135 engine, AN/APG-81 enhance situational awareness, targeting support. The estimated total cost is radar, an integrated core processor $23.11 billion. support and self-defense through the central computer, a mission systems/ search, intercept, location and This proposed sale will support the electronic warfare suite, a multiple identification of in-band emitters and to foreign policy goals and national sensor suite, technical data/ automatically counter IR and RF threats. security objectives of the United States documentation, and associated software. f. The Command, Control, by improving the security of a major ally Sensitive elements of the F-35A and F- Communications, Computers and that is a force for political stability and 35B are also included in operational Intelligence/ Communications, economic progress in the Asia-Pacific flight and maintenance trainers. Navigation, and Identification (C4I/CNI) region. It is vital to U.S. national interest Sensitive and classified elements of the system provides the pilot