Sec. 204. Office for Security Assistance in the Department of State
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The Secretary of State shall designate an office in the Department of State, to be known as the Office for Security Assistance, to serve as a central coordinating point for security assistance. The Office of Security Assistance should include knowledgeable personnel who, as necessary, are detailed from within the Department of State’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 Assistance shall— create, respond to, and coordinate security 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 of State; maintain awareness of security assistance programs administered by the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and other Federal departments and agencies, including managing the Department of State’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 assistance.
The requirements of this section shall not apply if the Secretary of State certifies to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate that the Department of State has established an alternative mechanism for the effective coordination of security assistance. Such certification shall describe such alternative mechanism to achieve the objectives described in this section.