
The U.S. government authorized arms sales amounting to over $175 billion in fiscal year 2020, a 2.8 percent increase the previous year at $170 billion, officials said Friday. These sales numbers are the combined total of implemented Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases and Direct Commercial Sales (DCS). This was made up of $50.78 billion in implemented FMS in FY ’20 and $124.3 billion in approved DCS cases, according to a fact sheet issued by the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military…