Question

Provide examples of major contracting considerations on international cooperative programs.

Answer 1

International cooperative programs are international agreements between two nations to collaborate for certain defence technologies. below can be the considerations taken care of, while getting into a contract with other nations.

These deals are done among friendly nations, to collaborate together for better defence systems. among other advantages, such deals should lead to stronger international relationships with other nations.

the cost of projects, setup, operations , logistics, etc which run into billions at times, with ICPs should be shared by other nations as well. Hence reducing investment from the US also the risk must be divided equally among other participating nations as well.

These agreements should provide a substantial growth to the defence industry which otherwise requires a lot of upfront investment. participating nations provide initial funds.

the technology developed would at later stages be needed to be exported to the other participating nations, hence care should be taken that the developed technology should be exportable.

These deals make the US industry globally competitive and should help create a name in the international market.

These deals should open two way communication and sharing of ideas and technologies among the nations hence giving a wider insight to the research and development department.

in order to meet internal and international requirements, it should help maintain a good production line. hence easier to maintain economics of scale.

During the course of the life cycle of production many sustaining costs are involved like engineering, research etc, all these costs should also be shared among the signing parties