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DoD Faces both Internal and External Demands for Improved Transparency

• In addition to congressional and international reporting requirements, DoD faces an equally pressing need to collect data for internal policy planning and strategic prioritization.
• More-detailed accounting of security cooperation spending is the first step toward developing effective assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of security cooperation programs.

Security Cooperation Programs Were not Designed to Provide a Comprehensive Funding Data

• Planning, programming, and management communities engaged in security cooperation have different reporting requirements, data, and data systems.
• Financial data is not consistently defined, tracked, or reported.
• Tracking of financial data is often divorced from program reporting.

Program Managers Have Adopted a Number of Ad Hoc Measures to Overcome these Obstacles

• Various program-level workarounds have been developed to create linkages between communities, collect detailed data, and develop common coding that may be applied more broadly.

U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development Foreign Aid Transparency Efforts Offer Lessons

• DoD may draw insight from USAID and DoS efforts to develop technical working groups and to utilize a "data warehouse" to generate reports.