International Activities

Oversight, program execution, program management, and selection of ESEP and APEP Agreements with partner governments. Military and civilian personnel from DAF Command, Product Centers, Test Centers, and Logistic Centers for 2-year tours at selected allied partner government laboratories and facilities. Partner government military and civilian personnel are placed in DAF RDT&E facilities.

Advocate, develop, and support DAF activities, goals, and objectives to build global partnerships in support of national security objectives and the NDS through IAC agreements. Funds DAF participation in NATO forums to promote harmonization and interoperability. Funds DAF support and participation in DoD IAC forums. Funds technical assessments, pre-technology development activities, requirements development, and interoperability activities. Funds DAF efforts to enhance existing relationships with Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, NATO, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and UK. Funds DAF efforts to build stronger relationships with the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, India, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, and Switzerland. Funds DAF efforts to establish IAC relationships with Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru, Taiwan, and other emerging partners in accordance with (IAW) national security goals and objectives.

Identify, develop, process, negotiate, conclude, and implement bilateral and multilateral IAC Agreements that meet the goals, objectives, and mission of the DAF and DoD. IAC activities provide the DAF access to: critical geography; remote test ranges; launch vehicles; challenged environments; operational environments; threat scenarios; new capabilities; world class R&D facilities; personnel; cost sharing; economies of scale; and critical information systems. IAC activities will meet warfighter needs and enhance interoperability by cooperating with our partners in the areas of: secure communications; positioning, navigation, and timing; situational awareness; materials and composites; human effectiveness; space domain awareness; robotics; nanomaterial; pilot performance; missile warning; satellite communications; quantum communication; secure coalition information sharing; biometrics; munitions design; hypersonics; alternative energy; improvised explosive devices defeat; weapons of mass destruction defeat; responsive space; ground and space based radars; sensors; autonomous control; distributed missions; training systems; synthetic aviation fuels; lasers; weapon systems; weapon delivery; unmanned aerial systems; missile development; armaments interface; swarming; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; sustainment; gap analysis; simulators; combined logistics; mission planning systems; world-wide flight requirements; electronic warfare; safety; aging aircraft; airlift; tankers; trainers; directed energy; weapon stores; systems acquisition; interoperability; and system development, updates, upgrades, and modifications.