May 12, 2021
AFSAC briefs DSCA director Grant on tremendous growth and strategic developments for the USAF FMS Enterprise
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Dayton, Ohio — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Dayton, Ohio – Heidi Grant, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on April 9 and met with members of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate (AFSAC) and other AFLCMC directorates, to discuss strategic priorities.
April 21, 2021
NAVSUP WSS Hosts DSCA Director at Joint Consolidation Point Mechanicsburg
Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS) hosted Defense Security Cooperation Agency director Heidi Grant, April 20, at the Joint Consolidation Point in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Grant met with NAVSUP WSS's Vice Commander Lynn Kohl, Deputy Commander for Ships and Subs Capt. David Carnal, Logistics Projects Office Director Scott Aughenbaugh and others before touring the JCP, which operates as the primary consolidation and transportation activity for Building Partner Capacity efforts with foreign nations to improve their ability to achieve security-oriented goals they share with the United States.
March 23, 2021
DSCA Delegation Visits HDTC
DSCA Director Heidi Grant and a delegation from DSCA recently paid a visit to the Humanitarian Demining Training Center (HDTC). HDTC is one of seven component agencies that fall under DSCA. Located at Ft. Lee in Virginia, HDTC serves as the Department of Defense (DoD) lead for training ally and partner nation personnel to build capacity in explosives remnants of war (ERW) disposal and the physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) of conventional stockpiled munitions.
Sept. 30, 2020
New Policy Makes U.S. More Competitive Partner
A new "term of sale" opens the doors to more nations that want to approach the United States about foreign military sales, and that makes the U.S. more competitive in seeking partnerships, the director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said. Just last year, DSCA created the "risk assessed payment schedule," or RAPS, term of sale, which offers more nations better opportunities to acquire U.S. military hardware through foreign military sales, Heidi Grant said today in an online discussion during the ComDef 2020 conference, a virtual conference providing insights and perspectives on issues facing the international defense communities.
Sept. 26, 2019
New Defense School to Educate, Certify Security Cooperation Professionals
Defense officials — including John C. Rood, undersecretary of defense for policy, and Army Lt. Gen. Charles Hooper, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency — attended a ribbon cutting ceremony near the Pentagon today to officially open the new DSCU's doors.
March 21, 2018
Strengthening Alliances and Partnerships through Defense Cooperation
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON, March 16, 2018 - Both the U.S. Departments of State and Defense are undertaking significant reforms to modernize policies and processes for defense trade with foreign military partners. This public event will feature key U.S. government leaders for implementing this reform and provide an opportunity to critically examine how the Trump Administration plans to leverage defense trade to enhance U.S. global competitiveness as a strategic tool of U.S. foreign policy.
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