Developing a Defense Sector Assessment Rating Tool
Abstract
The U.S. government spends billions of dollars annually on foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs span many agencies, including the U.S. Department of State (DoS), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). There is currently a variety of assessment tools and frameworks to assist in the design of foreign assistance programs and allocation of resources.1 However, there is no comprehensive tool to assist policymakers in assessing the state of the defense sector in a given country, to provide them with a systematic way of determining a country's capabilities to achieve various security goals that the U.S. government may have, or to monitor the success of defense sector programs over time. This study aimed to fill that gap and design the Defense Sector Assessment Rating Tool (DSART). The DSART can be found at the end of this report. For the purpose of the DSART, the defense sector is defined as the uniformed military, plus the military and civilian management, accountability, and oversight systems, mechanisms, and processes that sustain it.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA538796
Entities
People
- Agnes Gereben Schaefer
- Ely Ratner
- Heather Peterson
- Jerimiah Goulka
- K. J. Riley
- Lynn E. Davis
- Molly Dunigan
Organizations
- RAND Corporation