Defense Security Cooperation Agency

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Defense Security Cooperation Agency
Type: Independent Agencies
Parent organization: U.S. Department of Defense, under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Employees: 450
Executive: Director
Budget: $6.5 billion in Foreign Military Sales (fiscal year 2020)
Address: 2800 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-2800, USA
Website: https://www.dsca.mil
Creation Legislation: Department of Defense Directive 5105.65
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Mission
The mission of DSCA is to advance U.S. national security and foreign policy interests by building the capacity of foreign security forces to respond to shared challenges. It leads efforts to train, educate, advise, and equip foreign partners.
Services

Foreign Military Sales; International Military Education and Training; Institutional Capacity Building; Humanitarian Aid; Disaster Relief

Regulations
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Overview
Jurisdiction U.S. Federal Government
Headquarters The Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, U.S.
Executive Michael F. Miller (acting), Director
Website
dsca.mil

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) is an agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) which provides financial and technical assistance, transfer of defense materiel, training and services to allies, and promotes military-to-military contacts.

Security Cooperation (SC) is founded on a tradition of cooperation between the United States and other sovereign nations with similar values and interests in order to meet common defense goals. It consists of a group of programs authorized by the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and the Arms Export Control Act of 1976, as amended, and related statutes by which the DoD or commercial contractors provide defense articles and services in furtherance of national policies and objectives.

History

Founded in 1971,[1] the Defense Security Assistance Agency was renamed the Defense Security Cooperation Agency effective October 1, 1998.[2]

Foreign military sales (FMS)

Foreign military sales (FMS) and International Military Education and Training (IMET) are two key programs included within Security Cooperation. IMET is conducted solely on a grant basis. FMS can be conducted through direct payments of foreign states or United States Foreign Military Financing (FMF). Foreign Military Sales division is the core activity of DSCA, and yearly sales are between US$30-50 billion.[3] In fiscal year 2020, US corporations sold $50.8 billion through FMS, and $124.3 billion through direct commercial sales.[4]

FMS is a U.S. government to foreign government agreement, and DSCA acts as agent for procurement mostly for American defense company and aerospace companies or for DoD stocks. On any given day, DSCA is managing “14,000 open foreign military sales cases with 185 countries,” the DSCA director Lt. Gen. Charles Hooper explained at the Brookings Institution in June 2019.[5]

FMS is managed and operated by DoD on a no-profit and no-loss basis. Countries participating in the program pay for defense articles and services at prices which recoup costs incurred by the United States. This includes a fee to cover the cost of administering the program.[6]

Regional centers

DSCA has five regional centers. They are:

References

  1. ↑ Tirman, John (1997). Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade. New York: Free Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0684827261. https://archive.org/details/spoilsofwarhuman00tirm/page/24. 
  2. ↑ United States Department of Defense, 20 May 1998, SUBJECT: Department of Defense Reform Initiative Directive # 40 - Redesignation of the Defense Security Assistance Agency as the Defense Security Cooperation Agency Archived 2014-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Historical Sales Book: Fiscal Years 1950 – 2022". p. 7. https://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/2023-01/FY%202022%20Historical%20Sales%20Book.pdf. 
  4. ↑ Mehta, Aaron (2020-12-04). "America sold $175 billion in weapons abroad in FY20" (in en-US). https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/12/04/american-sold-175-billion-in-weapons-abroad-in-fy20/. 
  5. ↑ Hooper, Charles (4 June 2019). "How security cooperation advances US interests". https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/06/11/advancing-u-s-interests-through-security-cooperation/. 
  6. ↑ "12 - Financial Management". Green Book. Defense Security Cooperation University. 2022. https://www.dscu.edu/documents/publications/greenbook/12-Chapter.pdf?id=1. 
  7. ↑ Africa Center for Strategic Studies Archived December 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ "Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies". http://www.apcss.org/graphics/index.htm. 
  9. ↑ "Welcome to the Marshall Center". http://www.marshallcenter.org/mcpublicweb/. 
  10. ↑ "William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies". http://chds.dodlive.mil/. 
  11. ↑ "Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies". http://nesa-center.org/. 

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