SECURITY COOPERATION GOES PRO
SECURITY COOPERATION OR SECURITY ASSISTANCE?
The terms security cooperation and security assis- tance are often used interchangeably, but there are important differences.
The security cooperation workforce comprises DOD civilians and military personnel in positions that interact, or support those who interact, with foreign countries’ security institutions to:
• Build and develop the security capabilities of allied and friendly nations for self-defense and multinational operations.
• Provide the armed forces with access to the foreign country during peacetime or a contin- gency operation.
• Build relationships that promote specific U.S. secu- rity interests.
The security cooperation workforce cuts across multi- ple military branches and specialties, civilian career programs and occupational series. It numbers more than 20,000 DOD personnel, of whom 4,500 are with the Army and 1,500 are in joint billets that the Army fills. The ratio of civilian to military person- nel is 4-to-1.
The security assistance workforce is a subset of the security cooperation workforce, comprising billets or positions that routinely perform security cooper- ation functions whereby the U.S. provides defense articles, military training and other defense-related services by grant, lease, loan, credit or cash sales to further national policies and objectives. Many in the security assistance workforce are also in the acquisi- tion workforce. All told, it numbers more than 4,000 members of the security cooperation workforce.
(SOURCES: 10 U.S.C. § 301 (Section 301); DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; and the Security Cooperation Workforce Development Database.)
While security cooperation has long been a feature of U.S. relations with foreign militaries, authorities for such programs have been numerous and confusing, spanning permanent law and temporary provisions.
DASA (DE&C) has been conducting the U.S. Army Security Assistance Workforce Rotational Assignment Program since 2015. Selected personnel execute temporary duty assignments of 60 to 179 days between Feb. 1 and Sept. 30 each fiscal year. More than 60 security assistance workforce personnel have completed developmental assignments at the U.S. Department of State, the DOD’s Security Cooperation Offices and Defense Secu- rity Cooperation Agency, and in Air Force and Army positions since the program’s inception. In the 2021 fiscal year, DASA (DE&C) plans to expand opportunities to geographic combat- ant commands, the Navy, HQDA G-3/5 and the Army service component commands.
Since 2019, DASA (DE&C) has also managed the Security Assis- tance Workforce Personnel Exchange Program, which allows commands and organizations to trade personnel—a one-for-one exchange between organizations, versus one organization receiv- ing an individual for a temporary duty assignment—for 60-179 days between Feb. 1 and Sept. 30 each fiscal year.
Te two programs provide personnel in the security cooperation workforce with opportunities to enhance their competencies by performing duties in other occupational, functional and organi- zational elements. “We’ve had such a positive response from past and current participants in the programs, and we’re excited to get more participants to experience security cooperation activities not just in the Defense Department, but also with our interagency colleagues,” said Elizabeth Wilson, the DASA (DE&C).
DASA (DE&C) is also developing Army-centric security assis- tance training and tools to help the workforce manage security
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Army AL&T Magazine
Fall 2020
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