Modifies the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to change how the State Department recruits, trains, assigns, and promotes its diplomats, including new cybersecurity and leadership training requirements, a veterans hiring pathway, and a pilot reserve corps.

• Requires leadership, cybersecurity, crisis management, and consular training for many Foreign Service members, with some training required before assignment or promotion
• Creates a Veterans and Foreign Service Pathway Program with a five-year streamlined hiring pilot and coordination with Defense Department transition programs
• Sets nepotism and word-of-mouth referral controls for public members of Foreign Service selection boards, with recordkeeping requirements
• Establishes a Diplomatic Reserve Corps Pilot Program of retired Foreign Service members and others for crisis surge staffing, with reports to Congress

• Ways and Means Committee (House)
• Foreign Affairs Committee (House)
• Foreign Relations Committee (Senate)

International Affairs