Summary

Creates a centralized Office of Security Assistance at the State Department under the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security and names a Coordinator to lead U.S. security assistance policy, planning, training, monitoring, and interagency coordination. Requires new training at the Foreign Service Institute, a common interagency database of country-level security assistance activities and funding, GAO and State/DoD reporting, and a framework for assessment, monitoring, evaluation, and annual prioritization of recipient countries with multiple phased deadlines for implementation.

Key Points

• Creates an Office of Security Assistance and names a Coordinator to centralize State Department security assistance policy and coordination with DoD.
• Requires a mandatory Foreign Service Institute curriculum on security assistance within 180 days for designated personnel.
• Mandates a common interagency country-level database of security assistance activities and funding, with a 1-year implementation plan and 2-year establishment deadline.
• Directs GAO to assess how State concurrence/coordination with DoD operates and requires a joint State–DoD process for planning under certain Title 10 authorities.
• Establishes an assessment, monitoring, and evaluation program for countries receiving significant security assistance within 18 months.
• Requires a planning framework tying assistance to national strategy and annual prioritized recipient lists starting 2 years after enactment.
• Requires multiple reports and implementation plans to specified congressional committees, some with optional classified annexes.
• Does not itself appropriate new funds but allows use of existing State Department security assistance funds and anticipates staffing/resource requests.

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