tion has breached the duty of such official or employee, 
or finds lesser failures on the part of an official or em-
ployee in the performance of his or her duties related to 
the serious security incident at issue, the investigative 
team shall report such to the SSII/PCC. If the SSII/PCC 
finds reasonable cause to support a finding relating to 
such a breach or failure, the SSII/PCC shall— 
‘‘(1) notify the official or employee concerned; 
‘‘(2) if such official or employee is employed by 
the Department of State, transmit to the Director 
General of the Foreign Service for appropriate ac-
tion such finding, together with all information rel-
evant to such finding; or 
‘‘(3) if such official or employee is employed by 
a Federal agency other than the Department of 
State, transmit to the head of such Federal agency 
for appropriate action such finding, together with all 
information relevant to such finding.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 2 of the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and 
Antiterrorism Act of 1986 is amended by striking the item 
relating to section 304 and inserting the following new 
item: 
‘‘Sec. 304. Serious Security Incident Investigation Permanent Coordinating 
Committee findings and report.’’. 
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SEC. 8. RELATION TO OTHER PROCEEDINGS. 
Section 305 of the Diplomatic Security Act of 1986 
(22 U.S.C. 4835) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Nothing in this title shall’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(a) NO EFFECT ON EXISTING REMEDIES OR DE-
FENSES.—Nothing in this title may’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end of the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(b) FUTURE INQUIRIES.—Nothing in this title may 
be construed to preclude the Secretary of State from con-
vening a follow-up public board of inquiry to investigate 
any serious security incident if such incident was of such 
magnitude or significance that an internal process is de-
termined to be insufficient to understand and investigate 
such incident. All materials gathered during the proce-
dures provided under this title shall be provided to any 
such related board of inquiry convened by the Secretary.’’. 
SEC. 9. TRAINING FOR FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL ON 
RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall develop and 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
strategy to train and educate Foreign Service personnel 
on appropriate risk management practices when con-
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ducting their duties in high risk, high threat environ-
ments. Such strategy shall include the following elements: 
(1) Plans to develop and offer additional train-
ing courses, or augment existing courses, for For-
eign Service officers regarding the conduct of their 
duties in high risk, high threat environments outside 
of diplomatic compounds, including for diplomatic 
personnel such as political officers, economic offi-
cers, consular officers, and others. 
(2) Plans to educate Senior Foreign Service 
personnel serving abroad, including ambassadors, 
chiefs of mission, deputy chiefs of missions, and re-
gional security officers, on appropriate risk manage-
ment practices to employ when evaluating requests 
for diplomatic operations in high risk, high threat 
environments outside of diplomatic compounds. 
SEC. 10. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ESTABLISH-
MENT 
OF 
EXPEDITIONARY 
DIPLOMACY 
AWARD. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State 
should— 
(1) encourage expeditionary diplomacy, proper 
risk management practices, and regular and mean-
ingful engagement with civil society at the Depart-
ment of State through the establishment of an an-
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nual award to be known as the ‘‘Expeditionary Di-
plomacy Award’’ that would be awarded to officers 
or employees of the Department; and 
(2) establish procedures for selecting recipients 
of such award, including any financial terms associ-
ated with such award. 
SEC. 11. PROMOTION IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE. 
Subsection (b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
(22 U.S.C. 4003) is amended— 
(1) by inserting after ‘‘as the case may be,’’ the 
following: ‘‘and when occupying positions for which 
the following is, to any degree, an element of the 
member’s duties,’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘when occu-
pying positions for which such willingness and ability 
is, to any degree, an element of the member’s du-
ties’’; 
(3) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘, or’’ and in-
serting a semicolon; 
(4) in paragraph (2), by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘; or’’; 
(5) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3); 
(6) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
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‘‘(2) a willingness and ability to regularly and 
meaningfully engage with civil society and other 
local actors in-country;’’; and 
(7) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) the ability to effectively manage and assess 
risk associated with the conduct of diplomatic oper-
ations.’’. 
SEC. 12. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act and for every 180 days thereafter for 
the following two years, the Secretary of State shall sub-
mit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
on the Department of State’s risk management efforts, in-
cluding information relating to progress in implementing 
this Act, subsection (b) of section 102 of the Diplomatic 
Security Act (22 U.S.C. 4801), as amended by section 
3(a) of this Act, and the following elements: 
(1) Progress on encouraging and incentivizing 
appropriate Foreign Service personnel to regularly 
and meaningfully engage with civil society and other 
local actors in-country. 
(2) Efforts to promote a more effective culture 
of risk management and greater risk tolerance 
among all Foreign Service personnel, including 
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