April 3, 2025 April 17, 2025

U.S. Embassy Sofia Helps Bulgaria Welcome its First F-16

April 3, 2025 — Bulgaria’s first F-16 landed on Wednesday afternoon at the Third Fighter Air Base at Graf Ignatievo. With Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov, Defense Minister Atanas Zapryanov, Chief of Defense Admiral Emil Eftimov, and U.S. Chargé D’Affaires Susan Falatko in attendance, the aircraft touched down at 14:29. The aircraft had departed the Lockheed Martin assembly facility in Greenville, South Carolina, on March 31. A Tennessee State Air National Guard KC-135 tanker provided aerial refueling services en route, with representatives of the Tennessee National Guard – Bulgaria’s counterpart in the State Partnership Program – on board the tanker.

April 20, 2023

DIILS Partners with Ukraine

CAPT Ian Wexler, Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) Director, led a DIILS team in a recent meeting with lawyers from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). The Institutional Capacity Building engagement was a vibrant discussion on the law of armed conflict in the context of the current conflict as part of AFU efforts to review, improve, and standardize its training for the whole force. Additional topics discussed included the role of legal advice provided to commanders and other operational staff with respect to operational planning, cultural property protection, and targeting and collateral damage estimation.

March 11, 2022

DSCA supports the DoD Women, Peace, and Security Program

Around the world, conflict and disasters adversely and disproportionately affect women and girls, yet women remain under-represented in efforts to prevent and resolve conflict and in post-conflict peacebuilding or recovery efforts. Research has shown that peace negotiations are more likely to succeed, and result in lasting stability, when women participate.

Jan. 28, 2021

“Smart Sheets” on Institutional Capacity Building (ICB)

The DSCA Institute for Security Governance (ISG) has released the first set of “Smart Sheets” on Institutional Capacity Building (ICB). These Smart Sheets offer a standardized response to frequently asked ICB questions and represent the first set of easily accessible, cornerstone documents developed by a team of ISG experts and drawn from applied and field-tested efforts.