April 22, 2021
Air-to-Air Missiles Program Office hits new milestone
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The Air-to-Air Missiles Program Office (PMA-259) International Programs team has reached a first-time Foreign Military Sales (FMS) portfolio value of $3 Billion for 34 countries and two NATO member countries. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), an existing international partner, finalized an agreement with the U.S. this March to procure the F-35 Lightning II, Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft and requested additional AIM-9X Block II+ missiles for external carriage on the JSF.
April 21, 2021
459th teams with Denton Program for humanitarian mission
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — The 459th Air Refueling Wing recently teamed with the Denton Program to deliver donated laptops to underprivileged children in The Bahamas. The purpose of the Denton Program is to allow U.S. based non-governmental sources to transport humanitarian aid at little or no cost to the donor while simultaneously putting extra space on U.S. military transport assets to good use.
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.
April 14, 2021
U.S. Donates USD $3.5 Million in COVID-Relief Supplies
Today, U.S. Southern Command Admiral Craig S. Faller led a ceremony in Buenos Aires to donate three field hospitals to Argentina on behalf of the Department of Defense, in support of our joint effort to combat COVID-19. Argentina’s Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, and Minister of Defense, Agustín Rossi, also participated in the ceremony.
Remarks by Ambassador Yuri Kim at the HMMWV Equipment Donation Ceremony for the Albanian Armed Forces
U.S. government funds COVID-19 isolation clinics across Botswana
The United States government through the Department of Defense’s Office of Security Cooperation (OSC) provided P18.7 million to build COVID-19 isolation clinics across Botswana. This Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid (OHDACA) funded project is aimed at strengthening Botswana’s COVID-19 response.
March 31, 2021
Training center’s mission impacts post-war regions around world
FORT LEE, Va. — The Humanitarian Demining Training Center’s (HDTC) impact can be felt across continents, countries and conflicts as a post-war resource supporting the removal of explosive remnants of battle amongst other efforts to make places safe again. That primarily means training select U.S. military personnel in landmine and battle area clearance with the expectation of them sharing those skills and knowledge with partner nations who have common security interests.
March 24, 2021
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.
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.
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