Guide
Who pays for end-use monitoring?
The U.S. Government funds its own Golden Sentry end-use monitoring from Foreign Military Financing administrative funds: offices report what enhanced end-use monitoring cost them each year and project the next two years, and reports the program's costs to Congress. The purchaser pays for any additional control measures imposed as a condition of the transfer, and certifying the purchaser's storage sites for enhanced end-use monitoring items is funded on the case.
Who pays for end-use monitoring?
oversees the fiscal budget planning, programming, and execution of the Foreign Military Financing () administrative funding of DoW-executed activities and is required by law to report annually to Congress. ensure that all costs for conducting activities are captured during the fiscal budget programming and execution cycles. At the end of each fiscal year, are required to submit reports of the actual annual costs and future two-year administrative expense budget projections associated with conducting , including travel costs related to performing physical security and accountability inventories of in-country equipment, processing and recording initial equipment deliveries, and attending training.
References
SAMM
- SAMM C8.9.12.1.1 — Requests for Unanticipated Enhanced End Use Monitoring Unfunded Requirements.
- SAMM C8.4.6 — Application of Additional Control Measure Requirements.
- SAMM C8.4.8.2 — Storage Site Certification Costs.
- SAMM C8.9.12 — Enhanced End Use Monitoring Expenditure Reporting Requirement.
- SAMM C8.9.12.1 — Expenditure Reporting.
Related
Security Cooperation
Activities undertaken by the DoD to encourage and enable international partners to work with the United States to achieve strategic objectives. It includes all DoD interactions with foreign defense and security establishments, including all DoD-administered security assistance programs, that: build defense and security relationships that promote specific U.S. security interests, including all international armaments cooperation activities and security assistance activities; develop allied and friendly military capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations; and provide U.S. forces with peacetime and contingency access to host nations.
SAMM Glossary, as of 12 September 2026
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DSCA — Defense Security Cooperation Agency
SAMM Acronyms, as of 12 September 2026
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EUM — End Use Monitoring
SAMM Acronyms, as of 12 September 2026
SCO — Security Cooperation Organization
SAMM Acronyms, as of 12 September 2026
End Use Monitoring (EUM)
Mandated by Section 40A of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) (22 U.S.C. 2785), activities undertaken by the U.S. Government to ensure that defense articles and defense services transferred to foreign partners under security assistance/cooperation authorities are monitored and used according to the terms and conditions specified in Letters of Offer and Acceptance and other transfer agreements, and as required by the AECA or the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
SAMM Glossary, as of 12 September 2026
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National Funds
Source of funding that is provided directly from the purchaser.
SAMM Glossary, as of 12 September 2026
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Security Assistance (SA)
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.
SAMM Glossary, as of 12 September 2026
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LOA — Letter of Offer and Acceptance
SAMM Acronyms, as of 12 September 2026
FMS — Foreign Military Sale
SAMM Acronyms, as of 12 September 2026
Implementing Agency (IA)
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.
SAMM Glossary, as of 12 September 2026
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LOR — Letter of Request
SAMM Acronyms, as of 12 September 2026