Defense Security Cooperation University Expert Course of Instruction: Content, Design, Implementation

In its 2017 National Defense Authorization Act NDAA, the U.S. Congress called for the professionalization of the security cooperation SCworkforce as part of a range of reforms designed to confront perceived deficiencies in Department of Defense DoD SC planning, management, execution, and assessment and placed the Defense Security Cooperation Agency DSCA in charge of this effort. Accordingly,DSCA established a Security Cooperation Workforce Certification Program SCWCP in January 2020, which codified SC competenciesand areas of concentration AOC for the approximately 20,000 civilian and military officials in SC workforce positions and establishedfour proficiency levels that reflect increasing responsibility and greater knowledge, skills, and abilities KSA. DSCA asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute NDRI to help develop training course requirements for expert professionals that would capture what they need to know regarding the integration of SC into the national security framework.