The objective of this audit was to determine whether the DoD established program objectives, developed an assessment framework, met performance metrics, and met congressional reporting requirements for the effective execution of building partner capacity activities within the U.S. Indo‑Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) area of responsibility in accordance with Federal laws and DoD regulations. In addition to this report, we issued Report No. DODIG‑2025‑080, “Management Advisory: Timeliness of Performance Evaluations for Contracts Supporting the DoD’s Building Partner Capacity Efforts,” on March 28, 2025. In that management advisory, we reported that performance evaluations were not completed for contractors supporting security cooperation assessment, monitoring, and evaluation.
According to DoD Instruction 5132.14, a “significant security cooperation initiative” is “the series of activities, projects, and programs planned as a unified, multiyear effort to achieve a single desired outcome or set of related outcomes… to realize a country or region‑specific objective or functional objective.” Additionally, a significant security cooperation initiative requires an initial assessment, an objective, and comprehensive performance management.