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Foreign Service Promotions: State Should Improve Documentation and Consider Expanding Demographic Representation on Selection Boards

GAO-25-106956
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent documents how GTM specifically defines the established requirements for selection board members. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent consider how best to make certain that selection board member composition better reflects the Foreign Service, including ethnicity and disability status. (Recommendation 3)
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Foreign Service Promotions: State Should Improve Documentation and Consider Expanding Demographic Representation on Selection Boards

GAO-25-106956
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent documents its assessment of the usefulness of the leading practices identified in the benchmarking study for its reform initiative. (Recommendation 1)
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IT Portfolio Management: OMB and Agencies Are Not Fully Addressing Selected Statutory Requirements

GAO-25-107041
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Department of State The Secretary of State should direct the department CIO to work with OMB to ensure that its high-risk IT investment reviews include a root cause analysis of the high level of risk and the probability of future successes (e.g., outcomes), as prescribed by FITARA. (Recommendation 28)
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IT Portfolio Management: OMB and Agencies Are Not Fully Addressing Selected Statutory Requirements

GAO-25-107041
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Department of State The Secretary of State should direct the department CIO to work with OMB to work with OMB to ensure that annual reviews of their IT portfolio are conducted in conjunction with the Federal CIO and the Chief Operating Officer or Deputy Secretary (or equivalent), as prescribed by FITARA. (Recommendation 26)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should direct the department CIO to work with OMB to ensure that the Federal CIO is consulted in performing high-risk IT investment reviews, as prescribed by FITARA. (Recommendation 27)
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Caribbean Firearms: Agencies Have Anti-Trafficking Efforts in Place, But State Could Better Assess Activities

GAO-25-107007
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement updates the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative's Results Framework to establish firearms trafficking specific indicators. (Recommendation 1)
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Ukraine: U.S. Agencies Should Improve Tracking of Authorized U.S.-Origin Defense Article Transfers Requested by Foreign Donors

GAO-24-106745
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Department of State The Secretary of State should instruct RSAT to further strengthen its document management system for authorizations of TPTs, and implement processes outlined in its standard operating procedures to improve its ability to share information with other U.S. agencies. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should require the Bureau of Political Military Affairs to request that divesting countries notify appropriate officials within U.S. Embassies' Offices of Defense Cooperation of donation deliveries to Ukraine when those donations were a condition of FMF assistance to the divesting country. (Recommendation 1)
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Ukraine: U.S. Agencies Should Improve Tracking of Authorized U.S.-Origin Defense Article Transfers Requested by Foreign Donors

GAO-24-106745
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Department of State The Secretary of State should take steps to ensure that RSAT's TPT authorizations include a request for divesting countries to notify DSCA and Security Cooperation Offices of related defense article deliveries. (Recommendation 4)
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