SECURITY COOPERATION REFRESH
schoolhouses and other programs as defined by Title 22 Secu- rity Assistance, a State Department authority executed by DOD.
Importantly, the new law mandates the creation of a formal- ized assessment, monitoring and evaluation efforts to foster more accurate and transparent reporting on the extent to which DOD achieves security cooperation outcomes and an evaluation of the reasons for success or lack thereof. Tis new accountabil- ity requirement aims to identify and disseminate best practices and lessons for security cooperation to inform decisions about policy, plans, programs and workforce. Te law also requires an annual report to Congress on the measurable results of U.S. secu- rity cooperation investments.
FOREIGN CLASSROOM
Puerto Rico National Guard Staff Sgt. Pedro Ramos teaches a bridge-building course in June to soldiers in the Honduran armed forces at Siguatepeque, Honduras. (Photo by Spc. Ashley Fletcher, 55th Combat Camera)
technologies and capabilities that support Army readiness, modernization and interoperability goals.
Te balance of international engagement activities was assumed by the Army’s chief of operations, the assistant chief of staff G-3/5/7, which oversees the day-to-day maneuver-related engage- ments with foreign partners. Tat partition of effort can result in conflicting messages to foreign partners and less than optimal outcomes for the Army’s contribution to DOD’s strategic goals of building partner capabilities and preparing for global coali- tion operations.
REDEFINING COOPERATION Fortunately, those disjointed outcomes are now merging into a far more synergistic endeavor thanks to that NDAA, and in particular the codification of Title 10, Chapter 16, "Security Cooperation."
Congress redefined nearly everything DOD does with a foreign partner as “security cooperation.” Tat definition includes not just exercises and information sharing—which are the tradi- tional forte of operational forces—but the Army’s support of State Department-approved foreign military sales cases, direct commercial sales, the training provided to foreign partners at our
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Meanwhile, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Secu- rity Cooperation issued assessment, monitoring and evaluation guidance as well as produced helpful guides such as “Standards and Guidelines for Security Cooperation Assessment,” which provide security cooperation programs and activities with stan- dards, guidelines and tools to inform decision-making. Much of this new guidance places the task of assessing, monitoring and evaluating the security cooperation investment on the execut- ing unit or agency, and the results are collected annually by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Security Cooperation for a report to Congress.
MAJOR UPDATE
DOD publications updated as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2017:
Department of Defense Directive 5132.03, "DOD Policy and Responsibilities Relating to Security Cooperation."
Department of Defense Instruction 5132.14, "Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation Policy for the Security Cooperation Enterprise."
Department of Defense Instruction 5132.15, "Implementation of the Security Cooperation Work- force Certification Program."
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Fall 2021
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