Department publishes its first Geospatial Data Strategy
By Erin Dudley
The Geospatial Data Act (GDA) was signed into law, Oct. 5, 2018, and recognizes geospatial data as a critical component of the national infrastructure and economy. GDA identifies the Department of State...
Flashback: January 1980
Then-U.S. Ambassador to Yemen George M. Lane and his wife, Betsy, appeared on the cover of Department of State Newsletter Issue 219 in front of their residence at Embassy Sana’a, which was being recognized...
OSAC Annual Briefing forges meaningful security connections
By Elizabeth Winter
The Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), a unit within the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), partners directly with security professionals at U.S. organizations operating abroad to build threat awareness and trusted networks...
Retirements | January 2022
Civil Service
Baldwin, Douglas M.Boggs, Gladys D.Borek, Maureen P.Champion, Reta G.Collins, Ronald S.Cornaby, John G.Fennell, Steven H.Henderson, Bonnie L.Huelsing, Margaret G.Jordan, Bernita P.Lee, Daniel H.Little, Verdell C. H.Oppenheim, Charles W.Reasor, Lonni H.Slaughter Jr., Harold J.Teague-Swapshire,...
Highlighting U.S. air quality support at TEDxChiangMai
Partners at Chiang Mai University (CMU) highlighted the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs-supported Building Air Quality Monitoring Capacity in Southeast Asia program at TEDxChiangMai, Nov. 27. The implementer, RTI International,...
Firefighters visit Embassy London art exhibition
Embassy London in conjunction with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations’ Office of Cultural Heritage developed a temporary art exhibition titled, “And Yet We Rise,” which opened Sept. 1. It shares cultural objects from...
Azerbaijan green diplomacy honors staff
To recognize the more than 335 locally employed (LE) staff at Embassy Baku, the post’s American staff donated money to purchase olive trees for each Azerbaijani staff member. Ambassador Lee Litzenberger, along with American...
Embassy Lomé briefs Togo leadership on information technology program
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Acting Chief Executive Officer Mahmoud Bah and their Senior Policy Officer Patrick Malarkey visited Togo, Nov. 29-30. Their visit was aimed at reinvigorating Togo’s dedication to, and implementation of, its...
