Last revised: May 09, 2003
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REINVENTION HISTORY

Security Cooperation Reinvention goals are to reduce business cycle times, improve customer satisfaction and participation, decrease resource consumption, improve the U.S. Government’s competitiveness and reputation, and maintain Security Cooperation as a credible method for projecting U.S. interests throughout the world.  These goals will be accomplished through streamlining, re-engineering, automation, and information technology, providing the Security Cooperation system with more efficient, standardized procedures.

In May 1998, then Deputy Secretary of Defense, Dr. John Hamre, established a U.S. Government Integrated Process Team (IPT) to address Security Cooperation Reinvention and to work with the Defense Policy Advisory Committee on Trade (DPACT), a group composed of top-level representatives from the major U.S. defense companies. The group met for the first time in September 1998 to discuss U.S. industry and foreign purchaser concerns, and to unfold a strategy for reinvention.  As part of the effort, representatives from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Military Department (MILDEP), and industry associations were subsequently invited to a series of roundtables to lay the intellectual framework for reinvention.  The result was three white papers approved by Dr. Hamre titled "Process Transparency", "Pricing, Finance, and USG Cost Recovery", and "Arms/Technology Transfer".

On 10 June 1999, DSCA hosted Security Cooperation Reform Day,  which provided one of the first opportunities in a long time for U.S. industry, foreign government, and USG officials to exchange ideas on the effort. 

DSCA highlighted ten near-term security cooperation reinvention achievements at its worldwide conference on 26 and 27 Sep 2001.

Subsequent reinvention efforts will be transformed to a longer-term business process reengineering undertaking which will result in continuous improvements for the security cooperation community in the out years. 

1. Process Transparency White Paper approved 1/26/99

• March 1999 DepSecDef policy memo --Customer Participation in Contract Negotiations

• May 1999 USD(P) & USD(A&T) policy memo --Cooperating with Industry

2. Pricing, Finance, and U.S. Cost Recovery White Paper approved 1/26/99

• February 1999 DSCA policy memo --Approved Release of Logistics Support Charge (LSC) and Contract Administration Services (CAS)

• September 1999, DSCA policy memo --Increased LOA Transparency

•  June 2000, DSCA policy memo--Firm Fixed Price (FFP) and Not To Exceed (NTE) Letter of Offer and Acceptance

3. Arms/Technology Transfer White Paper approved 9/27/99

• 18 November 1998 DepSecDef policy memo--General, Disclosure, Licensing, and the Arms Transfer Policy Review Group (ATPRG)

• DoD Plan to Cut the Export Application Time

• 4 October 1999 DepSecDef memo --Implements New Export License Review Timeframes

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