Security Cooperation

LAS VEGAS – Developing NCOs has long been a strategy in the U.S. military to build capability and maintain readiness by way of providing the education and training required to operate in complex environments.

While the professional development of NCOs is varied in focus internationally, many countries are recognizing the critical importance of their enlisted force and increasingly prioritizing training and professional development programs.

A football team is only as good as the game plan it follows, and the same could be said for the Defense Department.

A football team cannot have the receivers running routes the quarterback doesn't expect, nor can linemen block just whomever they want. This doesn't mean there can't be adjustments as the game progresses, but everyone on the team must work toward a common purpose.

By Amber Kurka, Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency has published the FY 2023 Security Assistance Accounts (SAA) Agency Financial Report (AFR). It can be found here: https://www.dsca.mil/resources/reports.

By C. Todd Lopez , DOD News

Since it opened just four years ago under the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Defense Security Cooperation University has made strides in achieving the initial goals it set for itself and has also expanded and improved on its ability to train the nation's security cooperation workforce. It is now in the process of evolving further, in order to respond to a rapidly changing strategic environment.

DSCA is little known outside Washington, but its effect on allies, partners and friends around the world is profound. The agency is the Defense Department entity responsible for all security cooperation, ranging  from training to equipment to professional military education.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2013 – Based on the proven value of international outreach in helping to create and maintain the Northern Distribution Network into Afghanistan, U.S. Transportation Command is initiating similar efforts with partners in the Asia-Pacific and African theaters.

Transcom introduced its Security Cooperation Program in 2008 to garner support for an alternative transportation network into Afghanistan, Mike Brogan, the command’s security cooperation manager, told American Forces Press Service.

TOKYO, Oct. 3, 2013 – In a joint statement today, U.S. and Japanese diplomatic and military leaders agreed to revise the 1997 Guidelines for U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation, increase security and defense collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, and advance the realignment of American troops in Japan.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2013 – Though 2012 was a banner fiscal year with $69.1 billion in foreign military sales, that program and others like it are not in the business of selling equipment, but rather are promoting military-to-military relationships with international partners, a Defense Security Cooperation Agency official said here yesterday.