Posts Tagged ‘coordination’

Senate Reports on Interagency Personnel Rotation Act

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

In November 2012, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs reported the Interagency Personnel Rotation Act of 2011 to Congress…

Researcher Looking for People Who Worked with Iraqi Army 2006-2011

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Researcher Brian Humphreys is currently studying the development of the Iraqi Army between 2006 and 2011. He is most interested in learning about Iraqi and American efforts to redefine the Iraqi Army’s cultural identity during this period…

Interagency Cooperation Brings Results for Combatant Commands

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Interagency collaboration has been embraced by U.S. combatant commands.  These efforts are an integral part of “Smart Defense,” and have had a major impact on U.S. European Command…

PKSOI Releases Mass Atrocity Prevention and Response Handbook

Friday, April 13th, 2012

In March, the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute released its policy planning handbook on mass atrocity prevention and response operations.  The handbook was developed to aid in interagency policy making decisions dealing with mass atrocity and genocide situations…

Water Partnership Unites Government Agencies and NGOs

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

On March 21, the State Department released a fact sheet detailing the establishment of the US Water Partnership (USWP). The USWP is a U.S.-based public-private partnership established to unite American expertise, knowledge, and resources to address water challenges around the world…

Brownfield Encourages Interagency Cooperation in Narcotic Trafficking Efforts

Friday, December 16th, 2011

On December 15, William Brownfield, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, gave a statement before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Global Narcotics Affairs on the important steps that need to be taken in U.S. anti-narcotic trafficking efforts…

Interagency Cooperative Efforts Contribute to Counterfeiting Crackdown

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

The domain names of 150 commercial websites have been seized as part of a federal law enforcement operation.  The seizure is a coordinated anti-counterfeiting effort of the Department of Justice, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

SIGAR Audit Reveals Limited Interagency Coordination in Afghanistan Reconstruction

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

The July 2011 performance audit by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reports on U.S. efforts to improve the capacity of the Afghan government to regulate Afghanistan’s financial sector and to strengthen the controls U.S. agencies use to track U.S. funds in the Afghan economy…

IAP 5 (June 2011) Interagency Collaborative Arrangements and Activities: Types, Rationales, Considerations

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

by Frederick M. Kaiser

Interagency coordinative arrangements and activities—called for in public laws, executive orders, and administrative directives—appear to be growing in number, prominence, and proposals throughout virtually all individual policy areas and across-the-board. Underlying this growth are several developments…

IAP 3 (Jan 2011) Is a Sense of Community Vital to Interagency Coordination?

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

by William J. Davis, Jr., Ph.D.

What causes a large group to operate in an efficient, effective, innovative manner? Is it the way it is organized, its executive structure, its mechanisms for gathering and disseminating information, its internal communications, its analytic capacity, its contributions from staff, its morale, or its sense of community?