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Defense Security Cooperation Agency

security. Also DSCA

The US Defense Department agency that administers Foreign Military Sales, grants of excess equipment and other security cooperation programmes, and sends Congress the formal notifications of proposed arms sales. Its public notices are the usual first record of a proposed sale to Pakistan, such as the $450 million F-16 sustainment case notified in September 2022 and a $686 million F-16 upgrade package notified in December 2025.12

Linked from 3 pages across CUPA.

Sources

  1. US approves sale of $686 million tech upgrade, equipment for Pakistan’s F-16 fighter jets. Arab News, 2025-12. Press
  2. US proposes sale to sustain Pakistan F-16s. Janes, 2022-09. Press