the national security program here at csis. thank you so much for joining us today for the second portion of our rollout event for the oversight and accountability and security secretary assistant seeking return on investment report. following the terrific remarks from representative smith this morning, we have gathered an interagency panel from several important notes of the vast security sector assistance community to enlighten us on some of the great work that they are doing behind the scenes on this on this enterprise. i did want to spend a few minutes at the outset noting the co-authors and great work and contributions of csis staff that worked on this project over the last nine months. my co-authors hijab shaw, rebecca hughes and shannon green contributed mightily to the successful outcome of this project. and none of this would have been possible without the tremendous engagement and support of key stakeholders throughout the ssa community, several of which are in th
good afternoon, everyone. i m melissa dalton, a senior fellow in the deputy director of the national security program here at csis. thank you so much for joining us today for the second portion of our rollout event for the oversight and accountability and security secretary assistant seeking return on investment report. following the terrific remarks from representative smith this morning, we have gathered an interagency panel from several important notes of the vast security sector assistance community to enlighten us on some of the great work that they are doing behind the scenes on this on this enterprise. i did want to spend a few minutes at the outset noting the co-authors and great work and contributions of csis staff that worked on this project over the last nine months. my co-authors hijab shaw, rebecca hughes and shannon green contributed mightily to the successful outcome of this project. and none of this would have been possible without the tremendous engagemen