Sec. 9. Department of State Emergency Response Lessons Learned Clearinghouse
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish and maintain a clearinghouse of lessons learned and after-action reports relating to evacuation of United States Government employees and their eligible family members or evacuation of private United States citizens or third-country nationals, to be known as the Department of State Emergency Response Lessons Learned Clearinghouse (in this section referred to as the Clearinghouse ).
The Clearinghouse should be designed to provide— a central electronic repository of lessons learned and after-action reports to be made accessible to Department personnel to be used to improve crisis response and contingency planning; a collection of resources for Foreign Service Institute officials to inform and develop new curriculum to be responsive to developments in United States crisis response and contingency planning, including for the ambassadorial seminar and Deputy Chief of Mission course as provided in section 5; and publicly available documents and information, as appropriate, for civil society, nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and other stakeholders to assist with the Department’s development of best practices.