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Back DGMT Defense Institution Building Programs

Fiscal Year 2017
Division School of International Graduate Studies
Department Center for Civil-Military Relations
Investigator(s) Hussey, Benjamin T.
Sponsor Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DoD)
Summary The Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) mission is to build partner nation capacity and improve interagency and international coordination and cooperation by addressing Civil-Military challenges in support of US Security Cooperation goals. CCMR builds partner nation capacity through in-residence programs and through mobile training teams. This agreement funds the faculty and staff infrastructure, research, in-resident and mobile training team programs of CCMR in support of Wales Initiative Fund - Defense Institution Building (WIF-DIB) program and the Defense Institution Reform Initiative (DIRI) through the Defense Governance and Management Team (DGMT). DGMT comprises low cost, small footprint, high value DoD programs building effective, transparent, and accountable partner defense institutions. DGMT aims to sustain operational/tactical gains of US Security Cooperation investments, enable partners to manage their own security, contribute to broader security sector reform, and strengthen whole-of-government and OSD-MoD relationships.
The WIF-DIB program serves as DoD's primary security cooperation tool to support NATO partner nation efforts to develop relevant defense institutions’ capacity to decide, plan, resource, and manage relevant military capabilities and oversee and direct their use in a legitimate manner. WIF-DIB supports the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy), the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, and COCOMs and works with partner nation stakeholders to identify and conduct projects that meet shared strategic priorities–addressing institutional gaps that are preventing the realization or sustainment of security cooperation investments; strengthening high-level relations between OSD and MoDs; supporting partner nation efforts to achieve agreed NATO Partnership Goals, and advancing the principles of transparency, accountability, and the rule of law.
DIRI is DoD's primary security cooperation tool to support a partner nation's efforts to develop its defense institution's capacity to decide, plan, resource, and manage relevant military capabilities and oversee and direct their use in a legitimate manner. DIRI supports the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Security Cooperation and works with partner nation stakeholders to identify defense reform projects that meet shared strategic priorities–addressing institutional gaps that are preventing the realization or sustainment of security cooperation investments; strengthening high-level relations between OSD and MoDs; and advancing the principles of transparency, accountability, and rule of law.
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