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Simons Center Announces Winner of 2013 Writing Competition
Posted: June 20, 2013 by the Simons Center
The Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation has selected Army Major Jeffrey S. Han as the winner of its Interagency Writing Competition for 2013. Han’s Team of Rivals: Building Civil-Military Synergy in the Interagency was the winning entry of the Simons... Read More
State releases International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
Posted: March 11, 2013 by the Simons Center
Early in March, the Department of State Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) released the 2013 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR). The INCSR provides an overview of counternarcotics efforts by the governments of over 90 countries,... Read More
Interagency health operations essential to national security
Posted: January 28, 2013 by the Simons Center
In a recent interview, Dr. Charles Beadling, director of the Department of Defense Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine, stated that global health operations have an important role in U.S. national security. "We do feel that there is a... Read More
USAID, other agencies develop action plan on children in adversity
Posted: January 17, 2013 by the Simons Center
In December 2012, the U.S. Agency for International Development released its first-ever Action Plan on Children in Adversity. The plan calls for an interagency strategy to assist vulnerable children in low- and middle-income countries, and provides a framework that will... Read More
Simons Center 2013 Interagency Writing Competition (deadline March 29, 2013)
Posted: December 19, 2012 by the Simons Center
The Arthur D. Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation announces its Interagency Writing Competition for 2013. The competition is open to the public and recognizes papers that provide insight and fresh thinking in advancing the knowledge, understanding, and practice of interagency coordination,... Read More
Interagency cost-saving efforts applauded
Posted: December 12, 2012 by the Simons Center
Panelists at Defense Logistics 2012, recently applauded cost-saving efforts by U.S. combatant commands, the joint staff and services, the State Department, the Federal Aviation Administration, and other agencies. According to Donald Stanton, assistant secretary of defense for transportation policy, the... Read More
Course focuses on interagency humanitarian operations
Posted: October 18, 2012 by the Simons Center
Nearly 40 U.S. Army Africa (USARAF) personnel recently attended a two-day Joint Humanitarian Operations course. The course was taught by instructors from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of the U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). The course highlighted... Read More
Wuestner, Scott G.
Posted: May 24, 2012 by the Simons Center
Wuestner, Scott G. Building Partner Capacity/Security Force Assistance: A New Structural Paradigm. LeTort Paper, Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College. Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2009. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=880 (accessed 9 September 2011). This paper examines the role of the... Read More
White House, The
Posted: May 24, 2012 by the Simons Center
White House, The. National Security Presidential Directive 44, Management of Interagency Efforts Concerning Reconstruction and Stabilization. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2005. http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-44.pdf (accessed 20 July 2011). The purpose of this directive is to promote the security of the United... Read More
Vohr, James A.
Posted: May 24, 2012 by the Simons Center
Vohr, James A. 2011. Haiti Disaster Relief: Logistics is the Operation. Military Review Vol. 91, no. 4 (July/August): 76-82. http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20110831_art013.pdf (accessed 13 December 2012). This article examines Operation Unified Response in Haiti. The article uses lessons learned from Operation Unified Response... Read More
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