Sec. 5. Establishment of a common database of security assistance and security cooperation programs
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Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, shall maintain a common database of information of all security assistance and security cooperation programs and activities, funding, and transfers by recipient country. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains a plan to meet the requirements of subsection (a).
The plan required by this subsection shall include each of the following elements: A plan to ensure a standardized method of capturing country-level data of security assistance and security cooperation programs and activities administered by the Department and the Department of Defense since fiscal year 2017, to include— the identification of authorities and costs, by fiscal year, of each such program or activity; the primary recipients by unit of each such program or activity within the relevant foreign partner government or organization; the purpose of each such program or activity, to include how each program advances United States regional and country strategies and objectives and advances mutually beneficial security goals, including addressing shared threats; narrative descriptions of all capacity building activities and any lethal assistance, including the training, equipment, and sustainment plan associated with each such program or activity; and assessments of the recipient capabilities, absorptive capacity, and political will to achieve program or activity objectives.
A description of potential logistical and methodological challenges to implementation, including the necessary resources, staffing, and authorities to address such challenges and complete the requirements of subsection (a). A plan to update, as needed, existing systems that assess, monitor, and evaluate the execution of security assistance and security cooperation programs and activities, on a country-by-country basis, that are carried out by the Department and the Department of Defense.
Options to enable visibility for the appropriate congressional committees of all country-level data required by subparagraph (A). Options to promote increased transparency and visibility of security assistance and security cooperation programs and activities for researchers engaged in research and development projects on security cooperation pursuant to section 384(g)(3) of title 10, United States Code, as well as evaluators contractors pursuant to section 383 of such title that promote security cooperation lessons learned.
In this subsection, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.