What is the Military Articles and Services List (MASL)?

A catalogue of materiel, services, and training used in the planning and programming of International Military Education and Training (IMET), and Foreign Military Sales (FMS). Separate MASLs are maintained for IMET and FMS training that provides data on course identification, course availability, price, and duration of training.

The legal instrument used by the USG to transfer itemized defense articles, defense services, and design and construction services to foreign partners.

When used under the authorities provided in the Arms Export Control Act for Foreign Military Sales, the LOA is a binding agreement signed by the USG and the foreign partner to transfer such articles and services.

When used under Building Partnership Capacity (BPC) authorities, the BPC LOA is not signed by the Benefitting Partner.

The military department or defense agency responsible for the execution of military assistance programs. With respect to FMS, the military department or defense agency assigned responsibility by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to prepare an LOA and to implement an FMS case. The implementing agency is responsible for the overall management of the actions that will result in delivery of the materials or services set forth in the LOA that was accepted by a foreign country or international organization.

A process, authorized by the Arms Export Control Act, through which eligible foreign governments and international organizations may purchase defense articles, services, and training from the United States Government.

Costs funded by a Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation appropriation to develop or improve a product or technology either through contract or in-house effort. NC also includes one-time costs incurred in support of previous production of a specified model and costs incurred in support of a total projected production run. See "Nonrecurring Production Costs" and "Nonrecurring Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Costs."

A group of programs authorized by federal statutes by which the United States provides defense articles, military training, and other defense-related services by grant, lease, loan, credit, or cash sales in furtherance of national policies and objectives, and those that are funded and authorized through the Department of State to be administered by Department of Defense/Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which are considered part of security cooperation.

SAN is a web-based system (also known as SANweb) that hosts various Security Cooperation applications and a library system for sharing documents. SAN also provides administrative functions to monitor and manage user accounts, control access to hosted applications and provides logs for system access and actions performed by the users. The SAN's counterpart, International SAN (ISAN), provides limited access to partner countries. It has only one application, Partner Security Cooperation - Training Management System.

Training (including special training) in an officially designated course. It is conducted or administered according to an approved program of instruction. This training generally leads to a specific skill in a certain military occupational specialty.