Today and tomorrow, DAI’s Bronwen Morrison and Karen Walsh are presenting to 150 military leaders at the Department of Defense Interagency Advisory Training Working Group at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.

Experts from various military training centers are convening for two days to discuss security force assistance. Members of 19 military units from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines—all of whom specialize in training for stability operations—will be making presentations, as will the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute.

The goal of the event is for the diverse units and experts to share knowledge on foreign security assistance and explore avenues for cooperation.

DAI is the lone development contractor invited to present. In a presentation titled “DAI: ‘Nontraditional’ Security Force Assistance,” Morrison and Walsh will inform the audience about DAI and its clients, DAI’s core competencies and global footprint, the stability operations team’s mission, nontraditional security services, and DAI training courses and tasks, as well as recounting some of DAI’s experiences in stability and counter-terrorism operations.

Walsh, a recent addition to the DAI team, most recently served as technical director for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives-funded rapid response programs in Pakistan, Colombia, and Liberia. Before that she worked for USAID in Iraq from the invasion until July 2004.

Another recent addition to the DAI stability operations team—Brigadier General (Ret.) Russell Howard, our senior advisor for stability operations—was a featured panelist at the October 21 symposium, “Dealing with Today’s Asymmetric Threat: Enhancing and Applying Soft Power.”

Held in Arlington, Virginia, the CACI-sponsored symposium featured experts from the five military branches and the departments of State and Commerce, and representatives from the McCain and Obama presidential campaigns.