Middle East and North Africa Israel is the largest recipient of
Title 22 security assistance under the FMF program. In 2016, the governments of United States and Israel signed their third ten-year MoU, covering 2019 to 2028, for the United States government to annually provide $3.3 billion in FMF. Since 2009, Israel has been provided with $3.4 billion for missile defense, including $1.3 billion for
Iron Dome since 2011 and access to purchase other U.S. military equipment, including 50
Lockheed Martin F-35. Annual FMF grants represent approximately 16% of the 2021 Israeli defense budget. In August 2022,
Boeing Defense, Space & Security and the Israeli government signed a contract for four
Boeing KC-46A multirole tanker aircraft and "associated maintenance, logistics, and training" for $927 million. Other countries in the
Middle East and North Africa were among the other major recipients of FMF funds, including
Jordan,
Egypt, and
Pakistan. The United States has provided aid to Jordan since the late 1960s. In 2022, the United States provided Jordan with $425 million in State Department Foreign Military Financing funds as part of its bilateral aid program. Egypt receives $1.3 billion in annual FMF, accounting for 80 percent of its military procurement budget. Since the 1979
Egypt–Israel peace treaty, over $40 billion in FMF funds have been used to acquire more than 1,100
M1A1 Abrams tanks, 224
F-16 fighter aircraft, 10
Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters, thousands of
Humvees,
FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS, and
AGM-114 Hellfire and
Harpoon missiles. In 2018, the
Trump administration indefinitely froze all security aid to Pakistan due to its
terror record.
East Asia and Asia Pacific In September 2023, the
Biden administration notified Congress that it was withholding $85 million designated for U.S. security assistance from Egypt due to its detention of political prisoners and human rights abuses and transferring $55 million to Taiwan and $30 million to Lebanon in FMF. In 2022, Congress authorized but did not appropriate $2 billion in annual FMF to Taiwan. The
2023 NDAA instead required that security assistance to Taiwan be provided through loans payable in 12-years. In October 2022, the
Philippines was granted $100 million in FMF that according to
U.S. ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson "could be used to 'offset' its decision to scrap a $227 million deal with Russia" and buy
Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters from the United States instead of
Mil Mi-17.
Ukraine and Europe Since the 2022
Russian invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has provided $2.6 billion in FMF to European allies and partners. The U.S. Congress has appropriated $4.65 billion across two aid packages for
Ukraine and "countries impacted by the situation in Ukraine." FMF funds were used to refit and transfer four former
United States Coast Guard Island-class patrol boats since 2018. In May 2024, US Secretary of State
Antony Blinken announced a $2 billion aid package for Ukraine to establish a Ukraine Defense Enterprise Program. The package is intended to help Ukraine grow its indigenous defense industrial base and move away from Soviet-era weaponry.
South America In April 2024, the
U.S. embassy in Argentina announced that Argentina would receive $40 million in FMF to fund the purchase of 24 F-16 aircraft from the
Royal Danish Air Force. == See also ==