Get Arms Sales Notification Totals
arms_sales_summaryTotals from the Arms Sales Register, built from the Federal Register copies of the Defense Department's notifications to Congress under section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act, delivered from January 1, 2017. Returns the total estimated value of the proposed sales notified to Congress with its basis and the date the copies are printed through; notices and estimated value by year delivered, with the 36(b)(5)(C) enhancement or upgrade reports counted apart; the 10 largest buyers by estimated value notified; the equal one-year windows around January 20, 2025 with the Gulf governments' share, the last window labelled open, as the Federal Register prints notices months after delivery; the 10 contractor families named in the most notices, with the value of the notices naming each; the counter-findings (the largest buyer's FARA rank, no named family among the reviewed super PAC donors, and every printed sales-commission line saying none); the transmittal-number gaps and the publication lag by year, with the Taiwan line; the FMS trust fund account as context only; and the register's headlines with their basis. The notices printed with no delivery date and the notice DoD withdrew are listed, each labelled as outside every total. Each row is a proposed sale notified to Congress, and its value is the estimated value the notice prints: never a price, a signed case, a contract or a payment. A company appears only as a notice names it, resolved to the register's reviewed family table: the value of the notices naming a family is shared, never split between the companies a notice names, never added across families and never described as company revenue. 36(b)(5)(C) enhancement or upgrade reports are a separate record type, counted apart; their values are never added to 36(b)(1) values. The estimated value notified, FARA money, connected-PAC money, lobbying amounts and the inaugural and super PAC records are separate records, shown side by side: never added together and never put in date sequence with a notice. Every answer carries the register's question note: these are proposed sales the Defense Department notified to Congress, as printed in the Federal Register; a notification is not a completed sale, and the records do not show why any sale was proposed or whether it went ahead. Every answer also carries the side-by-side caption, the as-of date, the date the Federal Register copies are printed through, each file's date, the source page on morvs.ai and the licence. Where FEC figures appear, the answer quotes the FEC's restriction on the sale or use of individual contributor information (52 U.S.C. 30111(a)(4)). Institutions only: no official, signer, lobbyist, treasurer, candidate or member of Congress is named, and single-person firms are withheld and appear only as counts. No party label is given and no buyer government is characterised.
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