By Angela French
While the United States was cheering on its national soccer team, the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) special agents and analysts worked behind the scenes to provide security support at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
DSS prepared for months to support the soccer tournament. As...
Sponsored by Embassy Jerusalem, the NGO Friendship League for Culture and Sports engages religious and secular Jewish and Arabic women from all over Israel, in the team sport catchball. More than 800 women are taking part in weekly training sessions, followed by discourse circles and other cultural and social...
Newly appointed Under Secretary of State for Management (M) Brian J. Bulatao hosted his first town hall in the Dean Acheson Auditorium in Washington, Aug. 8. Bulatao discussed his guiding principles, leadership expectations and presented the “M Family High Five,” which consists of key enterprise initiatives and projects that...
By Evangeline Taylor
The Centro Cultural Nicaragüense Norteamericano binational center was abuzz, May 17, with nearly 2,000 Nicaraguan students who were eager to engage with Embassy Managua personnel and learn more about U.S. colleges and universities. With 26 universities represented by U.S. direct hires, locally employed staff and U.S. government...
By James Miller
Throughout the past year, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) regional security office at Embassy Juba has provided security support for more than 40 flyaway missions in South Sudan. These missions enable the embassy to monitor partners that support the $500 million in U.S. humanitarian aid delivered...
Embassy Zimbabwe and USAID are providing food assistance to an estimated 360,880 rural Zimbabweans in response to the critical food security situation during the upcoming lean season, between October 2019 and March 2020, in Zimbabwe. The assistance will ensure that vulnerable Zimbabweans have adequate food supplies before the next...
In order to streamline the frustrating experience of resetting a forgotten password, the Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) has launched a new service called Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR). SSPR can help in quickly creating a new password without physical assistance from another Department of State employee.
To get started,...
By Jennifer Schuett
Situated in the heart of Burma, Mandalay is the country’s last royal capital, a bustling economic hub in the Indo-Pacific region and the site of an Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) project. Through the AFCP—an initiative sponsored by the Department of State’s Bureau of Education and...
The Orientation Division within the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) has partnered with HR’s Office of Continuity Counseling to facilitate employee-centric mentor dialogue sessions for new Foreign Service officers in orientation training. Most recently, members from the 99th A-100 class returned to FSI to mentor the 199th A-100 class. These...
By Eric Schoennauer and Tony Mazzoccoli
The Department of State’s strategic planning team agrees that there is no cookie-cutter approach to implementing a strategy. Missions come in many shapes and sizes, relationships with host countries vary widely and leaders all have their own styles and unique abilities. Increasingly, post leaders...