Vice Adm. Joseph Rixey, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, on Wednesday praised congressional efforts to bolster the security cooperation workforce in the latest defense authorization legislation. The Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act calls on the defense secretary to carry out a Department of Defense Security Cooperation Workforce Development Program "to oversee the development and management of a professional workforce supporting security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense." The legislation says the purpose of...
