How OMA Can Support your Mission
The Office of Military Affairs (OMA) is USAID's primary point of contact with the Department of Defense (DoD). Representing the spectrum of USAID functions, OMA addresses USAID-DoD areas of common interest in humanitarian assistance, terrorism prevention, strategic communications, conflict prevention and mitigation, counter-insurgency, post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization, and operational implementation.
OMA manages and facilitates USAID's day-to-day interface with DoD and coordinates joint planning, training, conferences, exercises, and communications.
Three combatant command (COCOM) liaison officers (LNOs) assigned to OMA-from Central Command (CENTCOM), Special Operations Command (SOCOM), and European Command (EUCOM)-ensure access to all levels of DoD. OMA has links with USAID's regional and central bureaus, and coordinates with State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) on planning and implementation of activities.
OMA operations are organized around three focus areas: interagency planning and implementation; policy development; and training and education. OMA produces training materials for use in joint training (e.g., conflict assessment frameworks, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) pre-deployment orientation, after-action reports, lessons learned) and coordinates USAID participation in civilian-military exercises.
In addition to the services list below, OMA can help your mission secure DoD funding for stability- and reconstruction-related activities. Please click on the 'DoD Funding' link at right for more information.
Examples of OMA Services
- Facilitate interagency operations.
- Coordinate and monitor USAID participation in military and interagency exercises.
- Provide a central coordination point-of-contact for pre- through post-conflict planning and operations between USAID, DoD and the Department of State.
- Provide coordination with non-U.S. military organizations (foreign national, UN, NATO, etc.), where appropriate.
- Provide pre-deployment training to U.S. military personnel who will operate with USAID in conflict zones; and to USAID personnel to be deployed to insecure environments.
- Provide on-going education and training to the U.S. military and USAID bureaus and missions about the role of USAID in the National Security Strategy.
- Facilitate joint DoD-USAID Theater Security Cooperation Planning and Communications with the various COCOMs through exchanges of liaison officers (LNOs) and senior development advisors (SDAs).
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- Provide USAID planning support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD/Planning) on implementation of DoD Directive 3000.05.
- Arrange, lead, and support USAID bureaus, offices, and staff participation in joint training/exercises to educate civilian and military personnel on the development-defense nexus.
- Develop a cadre of USAID leaders able to manage the interface between USAID and DoD in an emergency environment.
- Serve as coordinator and point of contact between NGOs, USAID, and the military at the operational/implementation level.
- Liaise with the office of Low Intensity Conflict (OSD/SOLIC) and S/CRS on early-warning planning efforts.
- Maintain "lessons learned" and evaluations from past emergencies, conflicts, and transitions.
- Serve as the base for USAID personnel trained at the military war colleges.
- Support and advise USAID's Military Policy Board.
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