Sec. 4. Interagency coordination of security assistance, transfers, and security cooperation

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Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that assesses the effectiveness of existing mechanisms that require the concurrence and coordination of the Secretary of State with respect to security assistance and security cooperation programs, and other applicable provisions of law that provide for coordination between security assistance programs, projects, and activities of the Department and security cooperation programs, projects, and activities of the Department of Defense that includes the following:

An identification of relevant security assistance and security cooperation programs, authorities, and resources that require Secretary of State coordination or concurrence, and their mandated coordination and concurrence mechanisms and processes between the Secretary and Secretary of Defense, including the definitions and guidance for such mechanisms and processes to include— joint coordination; Chief of Mission and Secretary concurrence; and joint formulation. An assessment of such processes and mechanisms in practice.

An identification of measures to improve such processes and mechanisms and the coordination between Department bureaus and offices involved in planning, executing, or overseeing security assistance programs and activities and the United States combatant command or commands relevant to such bureaus and offices. Consistent with recommendations made by the Comptroller General of the United States pursuant to the report of the Government Accountability Office identified as the 23–105842 report, the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall establish a process that specifies how and when the Department should be involved in the planning of projects pursuant to section 333 of title 10, United States Code, including timelines for the Department’s review of concurrence packages.