§383 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must run a program to assess, monitor, and evaluate the Department’s security cooperation programs and activities. The program must do initial checks of partner needs, risks, baseline data, and success indicators; watch how programs are carried out and track progress; evaluate how efficient and effective the programs are; find lessons learned and make recommendations; and include lessons from any such programs since September 11, 2001. The work must follow international best practices, interagency standards, and, when relevant, the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010. Money from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and other DoD security cooperation funds may pay for the program, and those funds must be shown and justified in the annual consolidated DoD budget. Each year the Secretary must send the congressional defense committees a report about the prior year’s program that describes activities and lessons learned, including challenges and best practices. The Secretary must also post a public summary of each evaluation on the Department of Defense website, but may remove or hide information that should not be disclosed to protect U.S. or foreign-country interests.

Title 10, §383

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(a)The Secretary of Defense shall maintain a program of assessment, monitoring, and evaluation in support of the security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense.

(b)(1)The program under subsection (a) shall provide for the following:

(A)Initial assessments of partner capability requirements, potential programmatic risks, baseline information, and indicators of efficacy for purposes of planning, monitoring, and evaluation of security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense.

(B)Monitoring of implementation of such programs and activities in order to measure progress in execution and, to the extent possible, achievement of desired outcomes.

(C)Evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of such programs and activities in achieving desired outcomes.

(D)Identification of lessons learned in carrying out such programs and activities, and development of recommendation for improving future security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense.

(E)Incorporation of lessons learned from prior security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense that were carried out any time on or after September 11, 2001.

(2)The program shall be conducted in accordance with international best practices, interagency standards, and, if applicable, the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (Public Law 103–62), and the amendments made by that Act, and the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–352), and the amendments made by that Act.

(c)(1)Funds available to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, and other funds available to the Department of Defense for security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense, may be used to carry out the program required by subsection (a).

(2)Funds described in paragraph (1) for a fiscal year shall be identified, with appropriate justification, in the consolidated budget for such fiscal year required by section 381 of this title.

(d)(1)The Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees each year a report on the program under subsection (a) during the previous year. Each report shall include, for the year covered by such report, the following:

(A)A description of the activities under the program.

(B)An evaluation of the lessons learned, including a description of challenges in executing the program, and best practices identified through activities under the program.

(2)The Secretary shall make available to the public, on an Internet website of the Department of Defense available to the public, a summary of each evaluation conducted pursuant to subsection (b)(1)(C). In making a summary so available, the Secretary may redact or omit any information that the Secretary determines should not be disclosed to the public in order to protect the interest of the United States or the foreign country or countries covered by such evaluation.

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The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is Pub. L. 103–62, Aug. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 285, which enacted section 306 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, sections 1115 to 1119, 9703, and 9704 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and sections 2801 to 2805 of Title 39, Postal Service, amended section 1105 of Title 31, and enacted provisions set out as notes under section 1101 and 1115 of Title 31. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 1993 Amendment note set out under section 1101 of Title 31 and Tables. The GPRA Modernization Act of 2010, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is Pub. L. 111–352, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3866, which enacted section 1115, 1116, and 1120 to 1125 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and section 306 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, amended section 1105 of Title 31, repealed section 1115 and 1116 of Title 31 and section 306 of Title 5, and enacted provisions set out as notes under section 1115 of Title 31 and section 5105 of Title 5. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 2011 Amendment note set out under section 1101 of Title 31 and Tables.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 383 was renumbered section 283 of this title.

Amendments

2024—Subsec. (d)(1)(B). Pub. L. 118–159 inserted “, including a description of challenges in executing the program,” after “lessons learned”. 2018—Subsec. (b)(1)(E). Pub. L. 115–232 added subpar. (E).

§383 Assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of programs and activities

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