Author: Department of the Army

Publisher:

Published: 2009-07-23

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781466306776

1-1. Purpose: This regulation establishes policies and assigns responsibilities for providing U.S. Army Security Assistance Teams (SAT) to foreign governments and international organizations under the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act as amended, and the Arms Export Control Act as amended. This regulation also defines types of SAT teams (fig 1-1), discusses the process for requesting, programming, deploying teams, highlights quality of life and mission sustainment issues associated with team deployment. The SAT consists of U.S. Military, Department of the Army (DA) civilians, or contractor personnel, deployed to a foreign country on temporary duty (TDY) less than 180 days, or permanent change of station (PCS)/ temporary change of station (TCS) more than 179 days status. An exception to this would be deployment in continental United States (CONUS) to support training on major equipment purchases. 1-2. References: Required and related publications and prescribed and referenced forms are listed in appendix A. 1-3. Explanation: of abbreviations and terms Abbreviations and special terms used in this regulation are explained in the glossary. 1-4:. Responsibilities a. Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology). The ASA (ALT) acts for the Secretary of the Army (SA) in team policy matters. b. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Defense Exports and Cooperation. The DASA-DE&C discharges ASA (ALT) responsibilities for SAT and will- (1) Develop, coordinate, and promulgate Army-wide SA policy, including the development of Army-wide input to specific country SA programs in support of Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) missions. (2) Exercise policy responsibility for SAT under international military education and training (IMET); Foreign Military Sales (FMS), and Foreign Military Financing (FMF), and other applicable authority as directed by the Department of Defense (DOD). (3) Receive, staff, and serve as final HQDA decision authority for resourcing requests for Army SAT from authorized command and agencies. (4) Request and coordinate with Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), G-3/5/7 for tasking responsible Army for approved SAT agencies and commands for execution. (5) Return disapproved requests to the requesting command or agency. (6) Be the final decision authority on discrepancies that occur between U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and AMC on letter of request (LOR) and letter of offer and acceptance (LOA) issues. (7) Use this regulation in conjunction with AR 12-1 and AR 12-15 for guidance in budgeting and programming. c. U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. The TRADOC will- (1) Serve as the Army lead command for the operation, development, offer and execution of security cooperation training LOAs (LOA are also called cases). (2) Serve as the Army lead for the management and mission execution of HQDA approved SATs. ( 3 ) T a s k T R A D O C , C O N U S A r m y C o m m a n d s ( A C O M s ) ( l e s s U . S . A r m y S p e c i a l O p e r a t i o n s C o m m a n d (USASOC)) and other Direct Reporting Units (DRUs) to provide personnel, supplies, and equipment to countries and/ or to task training support materiel program of instruction (POI), and foreign disclosure in according with HQDA taskings. (4) Provide centralized financial management and distribution of FMS and IMET program training funds for all operating agencies and training providers. (5) As required, provide case/program funding to combatant commands (COCOMs) or Army Service Component Commands (ASCC) that resource SAT from their internal assets. (6) Maintain security cooperation training execution data sufficient to reply to standard request for information (RFI). (7) Maintains a capability to contract Army SAT. (8) Comply with HQDA tasking suspense and requirements.