Government Reports
The Counterterrorism Partnership Fund is a new initiative first announced by President Barack Obama in 2014 at the Naval Academy. His initial request was for $5 billion split between the Department of Defense and the State Department. Congress has failed to provide the full request each year, but has continued to provide significant funds toward the new program. This report is produced by the Department of Defense and provides information on the Defense Departments request for the program.
This report is a quarterly report to Congress released by the Department of Defense on the Coalition Support Funds program that reimburses foreign countries for their participation in foreign U.S. military operations.
GAO was asked to review U.S. support to the governments of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico to stem firearms trafficking across their shared border. This report examines, for these three countries, (1) the activities undertaken by U.S. agencies to build partner capacity to combat firearms trafficking and the extent to which they considered key factors in selecting the activities and (2) progress the United States has made in building such capacity. GAO analyzed program documentation and conducted interviews with U.S., Belizean, Guatemalan, and Mexican officials. To examine progress, GAO selected a nongeneralizable sample of eight key activities based on a number of factors, including whether the activity addressed firearms trafficking.
For the Defense Department's Counter-Terrorism Fellowship Program, this report must provide a complete accounting of the expenditure of appropriated funds, a description of training courses, an assessment of the program's effectiveness, and a discussion of actions taken to improve it.
Congressional Research Service report analyizing the U.S. Policy towards Bahrain.
This report is the State and Foreign Operations section of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 also known the Omnibus bill of 2016 and includes congressional allocations for specific State Department-funded security assistance and economic assistance programs.
This Congressional Research Service report breaks down the U.S. security relationship with Israel and in particular focuses on the quantity and makeup of U.S. security and economic assistance over the years.
This report is submitted in accordance with Section 1009 of the National Defense Authroization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 and provides bi-annual reports to Congress for the Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities program (Section 1004 Counter-drug Assistance and Section 1033 Counter-Drug Assistance)
A report on U.S. Special Forces Training through the Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) program.
The Excess Defense Articles report is provided by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) in an excel format and regularly updated. Security Assistance Monitor regularly checks this report and updates our database accordingly.
Congressional Research Service report on the political transition in Tunisia.
The report is a budget document breaking down the Department of Defense's requests for fiscal year 2016. The report includes requests for funding for such programs as the Afghan Security Forces Fund, Afghan Infrastructure Fund, Counter-terrorism Partnerships Fund, European Reassurance Fund, Iraq Train and Equip Fund, and the Syrian Train and Equip Fund as well as drug interdiction and counter drug activities.
The 2014 Caribbean Border Counternarcotics Strategy articulates the U.S. framework for reducing the threats associated with drugs at the border and is guided by the following strategic goal and six strategic objectives:
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Enhance intelligence and information-sharing capabilities and processes associated with the Caribbean border.
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Interdict illicit drugs and drug proceeds at and between U.S. ports of entry in the Caribbean.
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Interdict illicit drugs and illicit drug proceeds in the air and maritime domains in and around the Caribbean border; maximize evidence and intelligence collection to support criminal investigations leading to associated and higher echelon networks.
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Disrupt and dismantle transnational criminal organizations operating in and around the Caribbean border.
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Substantially reduce the level of drug related violent crime in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Strengthen communities and reduce the demand for drugs.
This White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) letter provides details, including legislative language, on President Obama's request to Congress for additional Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The President's request includes $1.6 billion for a new Iraq Train and Equip Fund.
A report on migration patterns and tendencies in the Americas from 2010-2014.
The President's justification of the decision to "decertify" countries determined not to be cooperating in counter-drug activities.