Sec. 1206. Independent assessment of Department of Defense security cooperation programs

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The Secretary of Defense shall enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center, or another appropriate independent entity, with expertise in security cooperation to conduct an assessment of the Strategic Framework for Department of Defense Security Cooperation. The assessment under paragraph

(1)shall include the following: An assessment of each of the elements of the Strategic Framework for Department of Defense Security Cooperation, as directed by section 1202 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 ( Public Law 114–92 ; 129 Stat. 1036; 10 U.S.C. 113 note). An assessment of the extent to which security cooperation programs, individually and in combination, as identified in the Comptroller General Inventory of Department of Defense Security Cooperation Programs directed in the committee report (H. Rept. 114–102) accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, and any other relevant studies, contribute to the strategic goals, primary objectives, priorities, and desired end-states of Department of Defense security cooperation programs. Any other matters the entity that conducts the assessment considers appropriate. Not later than November 1, 2017, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives a report that includes the assessment under subsection

(a)and any other matters the Secretary considers appropriate. The report required under paragraph

(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

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