MODERNIZATION AND ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION
NEW REGS
Army publications created or updated in response to DOD changes:
Army Regulation 11-31, "Army Security Coopera- tion Policy."
Army Regulation 12-1, "Security Assistance, Training, and Export Policy."
Army Regulation 5-22, "The Army Force Modern- ization Proponent System."
effectiveness of our security assistance efforts. Further, it ensures a whole-of-Army approach, which aligns plans that equip and train allies and foreign partners to better contribute to the Army Campaign Plan, the service’s guidance for allocating resources and tasks to satisfy the DOD mandates.
Te Army validated this new relationship with a number of signif- icant administrative and strategy documents. In particular, those documents include the designation of the Army chief of opera- tions and DASA (DE&C) as the Army’s force modernization co-leads for security cooperation. Tese partners also co-devel- oped the Army Strategy for Allies and Partners and three of its annexes: Implementation of Security Cooperation with Allies and Partners, the Global Prioritization Assessment and Coun- try Specific Guidance.
Te Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s comprehensive and expanded mission, according to the agency’s website, is “to advance U.S. defense and foreign policy interests by building the capacity of foreign partners in order to encourage and enable allies and partners to respond to shared challenges.” Important aspects of the agency’s mission are the tasks of managing and training the department’s security cooperation workforce and demonstrat- ing the return on program investments, all while continuing to perform its traditional core functions such as defense trade and arms transfer, institutional capability building and international education and training. Much of that mission passes to the mili- tary services for execution through a variety of new guidance like that for workforce certification.
CONVERGING EFFORTS Understandably, the new DOD and Defense Security Cooperation Agency guidance resulted in the Army rethinking top-to-bottom how it engages with foreign partners and manages its workforce. Specifically, the materiel side of international engagement, the Army security assistance enterprise, led by DASA (DE&C), began to collaborate more closely with the operational forces headed by the Army’s G-3/5/7. Tat synergistic effort resulted in the formulation of new Army guidance for the security cooperation enterprise that more closely aligns with “General Order 2020-01, Assignment of Functions and Responsibilities within Headquar- ters, Department of the Army,” and updated critical guidance in security cooperation-related Army regulations.
Tis refreshed marriage of Army policy—operational security cooperation and security assistance—optimizes Congress’ 2017 guidance by contributing to the service’s combat readiness and the
NEW ROLES AT THE COMPONENTS Implementation of this new partnership required a number of structural and personnel changes to optimize outcomes. Specif- ically, Army Regulation 11-31, "Army Security Cooperation Policy," makes the primary implementer of security cooperation the Army service component command, which implements the geographical combatant command’s land-focused portion of the campaign plan. DASA (DE&C) placed security assistance strat- egists at each Army service component command (U.S. Army Pacific, U.S. Army Europe-Africa, U.S. Army Central, U.S. Army South and U.S. Army North) to assist them in incorporating secu- rity assistance activities.
Te DASA (DE&C) strategist sits with the Army component’s security cooperation staff to perform a number of functions. Te strategist helps identify partner nations’ materiel-related capabil- ity gaps from the perspective of the operational command and advises U.S. security cooperation officers at embassies and the foreign partner representatives with the early development process for foreign military sales cases. Tat assistance ensures accuracy and completeness of the letter of request leading to an expe- dited response from the Army’s security assistance enterprise. Te strategist also helps the Army component command draft land- specific significant security cooperation initiatives that support the geographical combatant commander’s security cooperation priorities.
Te benefit of assigning DASA (DE&C) strategists to component commands is multifold for the Army’s security assistance enter- prise. Tese strategists help develop component-specific assistance plans as part of the component’s theater plans and synchronize those plans with foreign partner requirements. Further, those
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