Sec. 924. Office for Security Sector Assistance in the Department
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The Secretary of State shall designate an office in the Department, to be known as the Office for Security Sector Assistance, to serve as a central coordinating point for security sector assistance. The Office of Security Sector Assistance should include personnel detailed from within the Department’s relevant functional bureaus and personnel from the United States Agency for International Development and other relevant Federal departments and agencies. The Office for Security Sector Assistance shall— create, respond to, and coordinate security sector assistance strategies and plans, particularly in support of development of interagency country strategies by United States embassies and regular planning by regional bureaus of the Department; maintain awareness of security sector assistance programs administered by the Department, the United States Agency for International Development, and other Federal departments and agencies, including managing the Department’s review and concurrence process under section 333 of title 10, United States Code; convene appropriate offices and personnel required for working-level interagency coordination; and ensure awareness of and making use of best practices in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of security sector assistance.
The requirements of this section shall not apply if the Secretary certifies to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate that the Department has established an alternative mechanism for the effective coordination of security sector assistance. Such certification shall describe such alternative mechanism to achieve the objectives described in this section.