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Climate Change: Improved Data and Performance Management Would Strengthen U.S. Support to the Indo-Pacific

GAO-25-106236
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that all relevant bureaus and offices implement improvements to track award amounts by country for multi-country activities provided to countries in the Indo-Pacific region to address climate risks, when possible. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs establishes procedures for the officials who manage the performance of climate activities to develop activity plans that identify external or internal factors that could affect achieving results and associated mitigation strategies. (Recommendation 4)
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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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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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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 require RSAT to request that divesting governments that have received TPT authorizations from January 2022 to July 2024 notify DSCA and Security Cooperation Offices of related defense article deliveries to Ukraine. (Recommendation 5)
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