Research Catalog

Title

Developing a defense sector assessment rating tool / Agnes Gereben Schaefer, ... [et al.]. Defense sector assessment rating tool / prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schaefer, Agnes Gereben.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xv, 29, ix, 34 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

Although the U.S. government spends billions of dollars annually on foreign assistance, there is no comprehensive tool to assist policymakers in assessing the state of a country's defense sector, to provide them with a systematic way of determining a country's capabilities to achieve various internal security goals, or to monitor the success of defense sector reform programs over time. In response, a RAND team developed the Defense Sector Assessment Rating Tool (DSART), which consists of six assessments to qualitatively and quantitatively determine the state of a country's defense sector, its institutions and processes, and its capacity to carry out operations for counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, counternarcotics, border and maritime security, counterpiracy, and postconflict stabilization. The DSART could be used to assess a country's current capabilities and then, over time, its progress. In addition, it could be used by countries other than the United States to assess their own defense sector capabilities or those of countries to which they are providing assistance. While the DSART is now ready for use, U.S. goals for defense sector reform may evolve, so the DSART is designed with a flexible architecture that can be adapted to a changing security environment.

Series Statement

Technical report ; TR-864-OSD

Uniform Title

Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-864-OSD.

Alternative Title

Defense sector assessment rating tool

Subject

• National security > Evaluation
• Security sector > Evaluation

Note

• No collective t.p.; titles transcribed from individual title pages

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. 25-29.

Funding (note)

• The research described in this report was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The research was conducted in the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community under Contract W74V8H-06-C-0002.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Development of the DSART -- The way ahead.

ISBN

• 0833050303
• 9780833050304

OCLC

• 660536954
• SCSB-10197508

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library