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Combatant Command Planning and AME

• The AME systems of the combatant commands (CCMDs) are not comprehensive or standardized; they currently focus more on theater-level functional and mission objectives than they do on partner country activities and objectives.

Relevant AME Frameworks

• Inside DoD, the Army and Air Force have struggled to develop reliable and comprehensive partner country capability assessments that are useful for service, joint, and interagency planning.
• Inside DoD, the Army and Air Force have struggled to develop reliable and comprehensive partner country capability assessments that are useful for service, joint, and interagency planning.The Office of the Secretary of Defense has developed an AME process for the counterterrorism-focused Section 1206/2282 program that contains several useful elements, including a handbook, a logic model, and a team of independent evaluators.
• The U.S. Agency for International Development's Interagency Security Sector Assessment Framework identifies capability and capacity shortfalls and barriers to change and prioritizes responses.
• The World Bank Group dedicates 1.3 percent of program funding to AME. It uses decentralized self-evaluations reviewed by independent experts.

DoD-Wide AME Framework

• The framework proposes a "hybrid" AME management model, in which the assessment and monitoring functions are executed by security cooperation stakeholders — guided by policy, training, technical assistance, guidance, tools, and templates — and the evaluation function is centralized in OSD to ensure independence and evaluations that are prioritized based on set criteria.
• The framework includes a five-step cycle for integrating AME into larger security cooperation processes, beginning with an initial environmental assessment, then incorporation of AME results into planning (step two) and program design (step three), then monitoring of plan and program implementation (step four), and finally centralized evaluation (step five).