Eric Gomez has a new article published in The Republic covering defense and technology policy topics: Sunlight Is The Best Accelerant: Why knowing five key dates can fix U.S. arms sale delays.
Eric’s research focuses on the U.S. military budget and force posture, as well as arms control and nuclear stability issues in East Asia.
His article builds on the work he’s been doing on the Taiwan arms sale backlog. It argues that a lack of data availability and transparency around the US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process hampers reform efforts by focusing reform at only one potential source of delays in weapon delivery.
He uses examples from the Taiwan backlog to illustrate how other players, including foreign government bureaucracy and the US defense industry, can contribute to delays.
He proposes public reporting of five important milestones in the FMS process to help get a better understanding of where delays are coming from.
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