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      "id": 100886,
      "date": "2000-01-10",
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      "title": "Excess Defense Articles: Grants and Sales to Allies and Friendly Countries",
      "summary": "The Excess Defense Articles (EDA) program provides one means by which the United States\ncan\nadvance foreign policy objectives assisting friendly and allied nations through provision of\nequipment excess to the requirements of its own defense forces. The current program is an\noutgrowth of military assistance programs developed by the United States in the 1950s and 1960s\nto provide allies and friends with relatively inexpensive military items during the Cold War. Since\nmany EDA recipients already have U.S. military equipment in their inventories, U.S. EDA items can\nsupplement earlier acquisitions at a reduced cost to the recipient. They can be made available\nthrough outright grants or sales at a depreciated price. Among objectives furthered by transfer of\nEDA are assisting modernization efforts of U.S. allies, assisting in multilateral peacekeeping efforts,\ncombating illegal narcotics production and narco-trafficking, and aiding de-mining programs.\nUnited States Partnership for Peace (PfP) initiatives have been augmented by providing grant EDA\nmateriel which meets NATO standards; supplying such equipment helps fulfill modernization and\nstandardization needs of eligible PfP partners in a timely and less costly manner. \n This report provides background on the EDA program. It gives the rationale for the program,\ndiscusses the key elements of the program, and how it operates. It provides data on recent EDA\ntransactions, and also discusses the means by which Congress oversees the program and its uses. The\nreport will be updated only if significant developments occur regarding the EDA program.",
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    "National Defense"
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