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workforce as well. When discussing his goals as commanding general, he spoke highly of his predecessor and the strate- gic goals he established. “Even before I got here, the team had already done an enor- mous amount of work, and the previous [commanding general, Brig. Gen. Doug Lowrey] too, developing a security assis- tance enterprise strategy for 2021,” he said.
The command identified three lines of effort, roughly centered on people, modernization and program execution. Harmon said he will continue work- ing toward those priorities and look for opportunities to make foreign military sales more agile and responsive to partner needs in support of military competition.
“My focus will be on further building out those lines of effort,” he said. “With any organization, whether it’s USASAC, the Army, DOD or beyond, it’s really the people that are the key of what we do, and we need to invest in and grow the security assistance experts of the future. For this organization, it’s the people that execute the process, it’s the people that lead the engagement, it is the people that deliver the strategic effect that we’re seeking with allies and partners. … I tell people, even if you spend your day in a cubicle, staring at a computer screen, if you ever doubt the impact that you have at the strategic level, disabuse yourself of that now. Everything that you do here on a day-to-day basis, managing a difficult and critical process, has a strategic impact with an ally or part- ner that is almost immeasurable.”
The organization’s other primary goals—modernization and program execution—center on the ins and outs of security assistance. USASAC will priori- tize the measured, coordinated execution of its comprehensive security assistance program, Harmon said, while also focus- ing on where it can improve. “Are we doing
everything possible to build partner capac- ity, are we supporting what the combatant commands want to do, and how are we helping to reinforce the trust and further build those relationships around the world through foreign military sales?” he said.
“We’ll want to look at how we want to modernize the AMC security assistance enterprise for tomorrow,” Harmon contin- ued. “Trough innovation, new ideas and understanding what we can do to better position the [enterprise] within the exist- ing policies and processes. Do we have the right authorities, do we have the right policies and processes to be as agile as necessary so that we can effectively compete?”
And with the Army's sights set on modern- ization, Harmon said USASAC will help ensure that the U.S. remains interoper- able with its allies and partners. “It will be important to understand where Army modernization is going and how it may drive future FMS opportunities, while also preserving the ability to be interop- erable with allied and partner legacy systems, because that level of interopera- bility remains absolutely critical in a future conflict,” he said.
CONCLUSION Collaboration is more than a nice-to-have for the United States and its international partners. It’s the foundation on which the nation will build its future. “Our senior leaders have said it many times— we are not going to fight the next war by ourselves, we’re going to do it with allies and partners. A command like this allows us to bring together the understanding of the threat, the understanding of priorities and opportunities, and the understand- ing of the importance of foreign military sales in support of ally and partner require- ments. Te security assistance enterprise will ensure that we can compete effectively,
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Harmon at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, before embarking to the USS Enterprise in the Mediterranean Sea with the president, minister of defense and chief of defense of Estonia in December 2007. (Photo courtesy of Brig. Gen. Garrick Harmon)
and FMS gives us that network that we need so that, should there be another conflict, should there be another crisis, we will be decisive in our victory, as a result of years of investment in our relationships.
“It’s that work that we do over time that guarantees the success of the future.”
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