ABSTRACT
In April 2010, the United States and Brazil signed the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA), providing the parameters and establishing authorities for a wider and deeper level of cooperation. Besides the DCA itself, two important agreements are in effect: one signed in November 2010 concerning the security measures for the protection of classified military information, known as the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA); and another, signed in March 2011, called the Framework Agreement on Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. In the United States, agreements involving the transfer of critical technologies, as in space and cybernetics, depend on the approval of the US Department of State (DoS) and Congress, which seek to guarantee that purchaser countries are the end users of the technology that is being transferred, thus minimising the risks that it is expropriated by countries considered unreliable or by terrorist groups.
