Sec. 814. Interagency coordination of security assistance, transfers, and security cooperation
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Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense and other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, shall maintain a common database of information to permit the identification of security assistance programs, funding, and transfers by recipient country. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that assesses existing mechanisms, including provisions under title 10, United States Code, that require the concurrence of the Secretary of State, and other applicable provisions of law that provide for coordination between security assistance programs, projects, and activities of the Department of State and security cooperation programs, projects, and activities of the Department of Defense that includes the following:
An identification of existing coordination mechanisms for planning, executing, and overseeing security assistance and security cooperation programs, projects, and activities, the purpose of such mechanisms, and their efficacy in practice. An identification of additional measures that would improve the speed, simplicity, or agility of each identified mechanism, with a focus on mechanisms requiring the concurrence of the Secretary. An identification of any programs, authorities, or resources that do not require coordination under existing law.
In this subsection, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate. It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense should jointly establish a pilot program to evaluate the advisability and feasibility of a joint entity to conduct collaborative planning of security assistance and security cooperation.
The pilot program should— establish one or more joint planning cells to conduct collaborative planning between the Department of State and the Department of Defense for security assistance and security cooperation programs, projects, and activities in a specific region or regions; assign personnel from relevant offices and agencies within each Department to staff the joint planning cell or cells; and assess the advantages and disadvantages of collaborative interagency planning of security assistance, and determine whether there are organizational, legal, policy, or resource barriers to broader adoption of such a model.