Building Partner Capacity: Inventory of Department of Defense Security Cooperation and Department of State Security Assistance Efforts

Abstract

Members of Congress have raised questions about the proliferation and duplication of efforts to build partner security capabilities and the supporting legal authorities. In addition, Members of Congress have raised questions about whether Department of Defense (DOD) security cooperation efforts lack strategic direction and may not act in concert with other efforts. In this report, we provide a fiscal year 2016 inventory of DOD security cooperation and State security assistance efforts that may be used by the U.S. government to build foreign partner's capacity to address security-related threats, including each effort's name, description, associated legal authorities, and agency involvement as required by the associated authorities. This inventory includes efforts that have building partner capacity (BPC) to address security-related threats as a primary goal as well as efforts that may have BPC as an ancillary goal or effect.