The Bush Administration's budget presentation for 2003 explains, "Foreign Military Financing (FMF), starting in FY 2002 and continuing in FY 2003, will be used to enhance the EN's [National Army] new role as a nation-building institution subordinate to civilian control - a major U.S policy goal in Nicaragua." [1]

Sources:

¹ United States, Department of State, FY 2003 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations (Washington, DC: April 15, 2002) <http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/9476.pdf>.