10 U.S.C. § 383 — Assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of programs and activities

(a) Program required. The Secretary of Defense must maintain a program to assess, monitor, and evaluate the Department of Defense's security cooperation programs and activities — the work the Department does helping partner countries with their military capabilities. (b) Program elements and requirements. (1) The program must include: (A) initial assessments of partner countries' capability needs, possible program risks, baseline information, and measures of how well a program is working, used for planning, monitoring, and evaluation; (B) monitoring how these programs and activities are carried out, to track progress and, where possible, whether they achieve their intended results; (C) evaluating how efficient and effective these programs and activities are at achieving their intended results; (D) identifying lessons learned while carrying out these programs and activities, and developing recommendations to improve future ones; and (E) applying lessons learned from earlier security cooperation programs and activities carried out any time on or after September 11, 2001. (2) The program must follow international best practices, interagency standards, and, where they apply, the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010, including any amendments made by those laws. (c) Availability of funds. (1) Money already available to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, and other Department of Defense money set aside for security cooperation programs and activities, can be used to run this program. (2) The funds used for this program in a given fiscal year must be identified, with an explanation, in the consolidated budget required for that year under section 381 of this title. (d) Reports. (1) Each year, the Secretary must give Congress's defense committees a report on the program from the previous year. Each report must describe the program's activities and evaluate the lessons learned, including challenges faced and best practices found. (2) The Secretary must also post a public summary of each evaluation done under subsection (b)(1)(C) on a Department of Defense public website. The Secretary may leave out or black out information that would harm U.S. interests or the interests of the foreign country covered by the evaluation.