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The Global Center for Security Cooperation (GCSC) centralizes the management oversight of International Education providers and allows asset visibility for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Mission
The GCSC shall develop and manage a single coherent requirement-based system to coordinate, integrate, and deconflict international providers’ activities and programs, consistent with and responsive to OSD priorities and supporting the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review and the Defense Security Cooperation Guidance.
Vision
Build a federation to provide leadership to a consortium of select international educational institutions. A symbiotic relationship with each Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS) is indispensable in harmonizing efforts for maximum effectiveness in accordance with Defense Security Cooperation Guidance.
Concept
The GCSC was formalized on October 6, 2006 as an OSD entity under the Executive Agency of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), and formally opened as an operating entity with a staff of four personnel on 1 October 2007. The Center was established in response to DoD’s challenge to develop more efficient means for OSD policy dissemination and provide greater awareness of DoD international education and training providers. The GCSC is an OSD tenant activity located at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) with NPS providing administrative and base operations support.
The Global Center supports and coordinates the activities of the five Regional Centers and members of the Global Center consortium. The Center maintains a common operating picture by providing a consolidated events calendar, student management system, curriculum reviews, reporting functions, and databases of Subject Matter Experts and lessons learned & best practices. All of these functions are available to supported activities through a password-protected internet site, using the Regional International Outreach (RIO) system. These functions also provide the RCSSs and their Combatant Commands added capacity and one-stop shopping for educational programs/resources (in-residence short courses, METs, and faculty exchanges).
The GCSC has no direct authority over its customers; it serves as a streamlined coordinator and capabilities provider and not as a layer of bureaucracy. It does, however, ensure that international education is consistent with and responsive to PDUSD-P, PDASD-GSA and DSCA priorities, and the needs of the five Regional Centers and their Combatant Commanders.
More information about the GCSC is provided below:
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