DSCA has played an important and unprecedented role in 

assisting Ukraine since Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion 

in February 2022. DSCA has led efforts to deliver more than 

$20 billion in assistance through several U.S. Security 

Cooperation programs in support of Ukraine. Hardware provided 

included stinger antiaircraft systems, javelin anti-armor systems, 

air defense systems, helicopters, switchblade tactical unmanned 

aerial systems, Howitzers, High Mobility Artillery Rocket 

Systems, armored personnel carriers, and other tactical vehicles.

The U.S. Government provided this equipment through the 

Presidential Drawdown Authority. This program allows the

the President of the United States to withdraw existing 

weapons, ammunition and materiel from military stocks and 

Ukraine

provide them to U.S. allies and partner nations during 

extraordinary situations.

Other U.S. Security Cooperation programs have been 

instrumental in giving Ukraine support, such as the Foreign 

Military Financing (FMF) program and the Ukraine Security 

Assistance Initiative. Additionally, the International Military 

Education and Training (IMET) program has aided Ukraine’s 

response via decades-long training and professionalization 

activities with Ukraine’s Armed Forces through the George 

C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, the State 

Partnership Program, Institutional Capacity Building 

programs, Rule of Law training, and other similar efforts.

SUCCESS

STORIES
The Department of Defense (DoD) established DSCA as the 

Defense Security Assistance Agency (DSAA) on September 1, 

1971. With only 90 employees, its mission was to provide 

oversight of military assistance programs with U.S. allies and 

partner nations. DSAA’s original programs consisted of the 

Foreign Military Sales Credit Program, the Military Assistance 

Program, IMET, and the Foreign Military Sales Program.

Over 50 years later, the agency--now known as DSCA--

has evolved considerably. DSCA’s portfolio now includes 

additional programs including defense trade and arms 

transfers programs such as the FMF and Excess Defense 

Articles programs. DSCA now also oversees Humanitarian 

Assistance and Disaster Relief programs, Global Train and 

Equip programs focused on building partner security 

capabilities, and ICB programs focused on effective and 

responsible partner resourcing, sustainment, governance,

and oversight of those capabilities.

DSCA has also grown as an organization. In 2019, DSCA 

stood up the Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU) 

with the headquarters in the National Capital Region and

main schoolhouse in Ohio. To ensure DSCU is the center of 

intellectual life for the entire Security Cooperation community, 

DSCA added the Defense Institute of International Legal 

DSCA at 50

One of DSCA’s main goals is to provide humanitarian 

assistance to U.S. allies and partner nations through 

management of DoD’s Humanitarian Assistance Program 

(HAP), funded by the DoD Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, 

and Civic Aid Appropriation. Achieving this goal demands 

collaborative DoD engagements with U.S. allied and partner 

nation government authorities in permissive environments 

to directly relieve or reduce human suffering, disease, 

hunger or privation or to increase a U.S. allied or partner 

nation’s capacity to provide essential human services to 

vulnerable populations. 

Recently, HAP participated in a donation ceremony in 

Mexico, where an expenditure of Foreign Humanitarian 

Assistance funds was approved to buy paint and painting 

supplies for a local school in an impoverished zone. Other 

recent donations from HAP and the U.S. European 

Command Office of Defense Cooperation include several 

heavy-duty vehicles, including road graders, forklifts, and 

pick-up trucks, as well as generators and tents for the nation 

Humanitarian Assistance

Program

Studies in Rhode Island and the Institute for Security Governance 

in California as DSCU implementation divisions.

DSCA's 50-year anniversary served as an opportunity to reflect 

on the progress the agency has made over the past five decades 

and the ways it can advance, influence and enable the national 

security and foreign policy of the United States in the future.

of Georgia. These donations will support the local Georgian 

government’s disaster prevention, preparedness, and response 

capabilities and improve roads and infrastructures. Additionally, 

a $20,000 bus donation is being used for community 

transportation to an Integrated Activities Day Center.
SAA Financial Report

DSCA published the first-ever Agency Financial Report 

(AFR) for the Security Assistance Accounts in Fall 2022. 

The AFR provides a financial and operational overview 

of DSCA’s security assistance accounts to provide a 

transparent, comprehensive, and in-depth review of 

DSCA’s finances and operations.

The AFR highlights the important initiatives that DSCA 

leads, and includes analysis of financial statements and 

audit findings, as well as the Security Cooperation 

community’s effort to improve the quality of financial 

data and performance metrics. It also displays 

weaknesses and gives recommendations on how to 

address and fix them. Overall, the report allows DSCA 

to improve its financial-reporting process and data in 

support of the U.S. Security Cooperation mission.

On August 11, 2022, DSCA participated in the opening of the 

Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies on Joint Base 

Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. The Stevens 

Center’s mission is to advance Arctic awareness and DoD Arctic 

priorities; build networks of Arctic security leaders; promote and 

conduct focused research on Arctic security to advance DoD 

Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies

security priorities; and address the impacts of climate 

change in the Arctic region.

The Stevens Center is DoD’s sixth regional center for 

security studies. As the Executive Agent for all of the 

DoD regional centers, DSCA will help guide the Stevens 

Center as it works with U.S. allies and partner nations, 

as well as with U.S. government interagency and U.S. 

industry partners that support a secured, rules-based 

order in the Arctic.
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DSCA takes Maritime Security and Domain Awareness Capability 

seriously and helps U.S. allies and partner nations do the same 

through various programs. 

One such program, funded by the U.S. Indo-Pacific Maritime 

Security Initiative, is to convert the Royal Malaysian Air Force’s 

three CN-235 military transport aircraft to maritime patrol 

platforms. This program will greatly enhance their indigenous 

intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability. It will 

also enable them to increase and bolster their maritime domain 

awareness within their Exclusive Economic Zone and support 

U.S. efforts to ensure global security in the Indo-Pacific 

Command area of responsibility. 

DSCA is also helping to improve Romania’s Maritime Domain 

Awareness by implementing a multi-year capability plan that 

will integrate U.S. security sector assistance with investments 

from the Government of Romania. This includes a Maritime 

Ministry of Defense Advisor to strengthen defense and 

security institutions that will improve their maritime response 

capabilities and infrastructures.

Maritime Domain Awareness