Jeff Henderson

Background

About Jeff Henderson

Serves as USAF AETC Air Force Security Assistance Training (AFSAT) Program Manager for Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, Kosovo, and Serbia Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programs. Manages detailed technical training requirements to help foreign partners realize organic vision capability for Foreign Military sales (FMS) training cases. Accomplishes a wide range of duties linked to the National Security Strategy (NSS) and Security Cooperation (SC) for acquisition, oversight, initial planning, risk management, and activation to sustainment of FMS cases. Portfolio valued at $1.6B. Promotes strategic objectives in Security Cooperation (Title 10) and Security Assistance (Title 22) matters & interacts w/ DoD agencies to build defense relationships to promote US security interests • Instrumental in developing allied and friendly military capabilities for self-defense & multinational operations, and provides US forces with peacetime and contingency access to host nations • Built partner nation facility design plan from scratch; led “in-country” site surveys focused on Arms Export Control Act (AECA) & DoD standards; ensured facility requirements align w/ acquisition • Collaborates with Security Cooperation Organization (SCO) on partner nation defense needs • Interacts with partner nation counterparts to build an understanding of their cultural norms • Completed comprehensive review and rewrite of the partners Training Plans • Uses tools & methodologies such as SWOT, DIMEFIL, or PMESII-CTP to conduct formal assessments of operational and security environments as a baseline of partner nation’s capabilities • Ability to properly articulate sensitive topics to partner nations such as funding and timing, which can be constraints in planning and executing Security Assistance programs and activities • Works with implementing agency (IA) development of the Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) applicability to Congressional Notification, Country Team Assessments, and Foreign Disclosures • Identifies partner nation short-falls; authored 10-page proposal outlining facility requirements to meet partner nation LOA requirements; the key to successful $500 million facility construction contract • Effectively negotiates with foreign & international organizations to support the NSS & SC objectives • Maintains a complete understanding of National Disclosure Policy (NDP) to establish a framework to approve or deny the transfer of Classified Military Information (CMI) to foreign governments