Assistance program
Defense Security Cooperation University - Sponsored Research
$14.5 Million committed in FY2024–FY2026
- Agency
- Defense Security Cooperation Agency (Dsca), Dept of Defense
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 12.024
- What it does
- The Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s (DSCA) Defense Security Cooperation University’s (DSCU) mission is to advance the knowledge and practice of security cooperation by producing research, analysis, and lessons learned that expand the intellectual foundations of security cooperation; and through the education, training, and development of the U.S. security cooperation workforce and the education, training, and institutional capacity building of partner nations. DSCU components sponsor research that aligns substantively with the Department of Defense Learning and Evaluation Agenda for Partnerships (LEAP) framework and the DSCU Research Agenda.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- DSCU-sponsored research is generally open to a broad range of researchers (with or without affiliation) and research institutions anywhere in the world. Researchers include those with or without formal affiliation with a research institution, U.S. interagency security cooperation communities of interest, and the security cooperation workforce (as defined by 10 USC 384(h)). Research institutions include professional military education (PME) and civilian academic institutions, think tanks, and federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Individual DSCU components may have restrictions on who may receive assistance.
- Authorized by
- 10 U.S.C. § 4001
- 10 U.S.C. § 345; Statute 10, p. 345
- 10 U.S.C. § 384(g)
- Program site
- https://www.dscu.edu/ ↗
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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