RESPECT MY "ITAR"-ITY
PROCESS-ORIENTED
AGREEMENT POTPOURRI
The Poet’s Corner
TRANSMITTAL MINUTIAE
100

These types of agreement amendments do not require DDTC approval.

What is "Minor?"

100

For DECCS to recognize a submission as an agreement, the first three characters of the Transaction Number must be THIS.

What is “AG-”?

100

Within the proposed agreement, this type of clause is used to describe the program and to identify the roles and responsibilities of each party.  

What is the WHEREAS clause?

100

These two ancient Greek epic poems, attributed to Homer, tell the stories of the Trojan War and the hero Odysseus’s journey home.

What are The Iliad and The Odyssey?

100

For licenses in furtherance of an agreement, values must not exceed those represented in this part of the transmittal letter.

What is the (§124.12) (a)(6) table?

200

For items to qualify as defense articles, they must provide either one of these advantages.

What is "Critical military" or "Critical intelligence"?

200

§124.7(a)(1) requires hardware designated as THIS to be described by military nomenclature, contract number, National Stock Number, name plate data, or other specific information.  

What is SME?

200

§124.7(a)(2) requires the applicant to describe the assistance and technical data to be provided, to include manufacturing rights and any design and/or manufacturing THIS.

What is Know-how?

200

Though born in Boston, Edgar Allan Poe was raised in this Southern city, which he later called home and where a museum now honors his legacy.

What is Richmond, Virginia?

200

With respect to signing Transmittal Letters, the USG recommends these individuals do the signing.

What are Empowered Officials?

300

While AECA 36(d) Congressional notifications are based on the manufacture of SME, 36(c) notifications are based on THIS.

What is Value?

300

These are imposed on license and agreement requests to permit exports that might otherwise be denied.

What are Provisos?

300

As the only part of the submission package that the foreign signatories must see, the Proposed Agreement is identified in the DECCS Upload Menu Options under this pseudonym.

What is "Contract"?

300

Born in Lisbon in 1888, this poet is credited with modernizing Portuguese poetry and is renowned for writing under numerous heteronyms, each with a distinct literary voice.

Who is Fernando Pessoa?

300

Pursuant to ITAR Section 124.12, the actual or estimated value of an agreement is calculated as the sum total of technical data, hardware, and THESE.

What are Defense Services?

400

ITAR Part 122 stipulates that persons must register with DDTC if they perform at least one of the following functions:  brokering, exporting, or THIS.

What is Manufacturing?

400

 When listing addresses of end users to an agreement, providing one of these is deemed by DDTC to be insufficient.

What are P.O. Boxes?

400

**DAILY DOUBLE**

What is "C"?

400

Written after the Arab conquest of Persia, he composed the Shahnameh—The Book of Kings—almost entirely in Persian with minimal Arabic influence, preserving Iranian identity and language for generations to come.

Who is Ferdowsi?

400

Values calculated within the Transmittal Letter should not include those numbers associated with THESE, which are reserved for EAR-controlled items only.

What are Paragraph (x)?

500

The formal title of ITAR Part 124 refers to "Agreements," "Other Defense Services," and this type of procurement.

What is Off-Shore?

500

**DAILY DOUBLE**

What is Doubt?

500

Applicants are encouraged to provide the following data on sublicensees: legal name, address, defense articles or tech data to be transferred, and THIS.

What is "Role"?

500

This 16th-century Portuguese poet wrote the epic “Os Lusíadas,” celebrating Portugal’s voyages of discovery, especially Vasco da Gama’s journey to India.

Who is Luís de Camões?

500

Section (a)(3) identifies relevant USG contracts under which equipment or tech data was generated.  This section is most significant because it addresses relationships to THESE kinds of cases.

What are FMS?