[1] The United States provides technical and contract supervisory support to SANG through functions such as organization, training, equipment, procurement, construction, maintenance, supply, administration, and medical programs.

The head of OPM, the Program Manager (PM), exercises principal authority over the planning, direction, execution, and control of the SANG modernization effort.

OPM-SANG was established in 1973 in an agreement signed by then Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud and the U.S.

An investigation obtained by Army Times found that the U.S. military was supplying aviators to help staff a Boeing contract that the defense company was not fulfilling.

[3] The investigation determined that OPM allowed for "mission creep" to help train Saudi pilots as operations along the Yemen-Saudi border ramped up, expanding its flight instruction to the AH-6i "to fill a Boeing contractual void.