Security
Assistance
Monitor (SAM)

SAM is the first and only public resource to comprehensively collect, organize, and house all available federal data on U.S. weapons sales and transfers in one place, making it easily searchable by year or country on its website.

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About

CIP’s Security Assistance Monitor (SAM) is dedicated to increasing transparency, oversight, and accountability over U.S. arms sales and security assistance provided to foreign governments worldwide.

Arms sales and security assistance are considered a primary tool of U.S. foreign policy, but little is disclosed about these sales and transfers to the public.

Explore Our Data

This program explores the domestic, foreign, and geopolitical implications of US foreign policy on civilian well-being around the globe.

SAM houses the first and only publicly available, official data on U.S. security assistance in one place and makes it easily searchable online. Through research, data collection, and analysis, SAM aims to increase transparency, oversight, and accountability of security assistance and the international arms trade.

Click to explore data on U.S. arms, security assistance, and foreign military training. Our online SAM dashboard has the following graphs, showing $ value data from a variety of different public reporting mechanisms on U.S. arms sales and security assistance.

Foreign Military Training

This program explores the domestic, foreign, and geopolitical implications of US foreign policy on civilian well-being around the globe.

Our Foreign Military Training Database. Foreign Military Training (FMT) is when the U.S. provides training to security personnel and institutions and is generally a part of U.S. security sector assistance. FMT is reported in Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest, which is delayed.

Click to explore its data on U.S. arms, security assistance, and foreign military training. The country page will give you a great overview, with links to drill down into greater detail using our dashboards (a series of interactive visualizations that provide a snapshot of key data points) and pivot tables (an interactive table that allows users to view data trends over years by recipient or program).

Tables

  • Deliveries Detail Table

    Detail Table for SAM’s Delivery Data. Filter by country, item name, and year.

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  • Authorizations Detail Table

    Detail Table for SAM’s Authorization Data. Filter by country, item name, and year.

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  • Notifications Detail Table

    Detail Table for SAM’s Notification Data. Filter by country, item name, and year.

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