; (2) maintain awareness of security sector assistance programs administered by the Department, the United States Agency for International Development, and other Federal departments and agencies, including managing the Department’s review and concurrence process under section 333 of title 10, United States Code; (3) convene appropriate offices and personnel required for working-level interagency coordination; and (4) ensure awareness of and making use of best practices in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of security sector assistance. (d) Exception The requirements of this section shall not apply if the Secretary certifies to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate that the Department has established an alternative mechanism for the effective coordination of security sector assistance. Such certification shall describe such alternative mechanism to achieve the objectives described in this section. 925. Database for security assistance (a) In general The President should seek to ensure that the Department, the Department of Defense, and other appropriate Federal agencies are able to share a common database of information that permits the identification of security assistance programs and funding by country. (b) GAO report Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that assesses existing barriers to data sharing and exchanges that would assist in planning, assessing, and tracking security sector assistance. 926. Definitions In this subtitle: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) means the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives