---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 10309"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "10309"
heading: "Post Data Pilot Program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/10309"
units:
  - "Chapter 110 — Information Security and Cyber Diplomacy"
---

# §10309. Post Data Pilot Program

- (a) **Post Data and AI Pilot Program—**
  - (1) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) is authorized to establish a program, which shall be known as the “Post Data Program” (referred to in this section as the “Program”), that shall be overseen by the Department’s Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer.
  - (2) **Goals—** The goals of the Program shall include the following:
    - (A) Cultivating a data and artificial intelligence culture at diplomatic posts globally, including data fluency and data collaboration.
    - (B) Promoting data integration with Department of State Headquarters.
    - (C) Creating operational efficiencies, supporting innovation, and enhancing mission impact.
- (b) **Implementation plan—**
  - (1) **In general—** Not later than 180 days after December 18, 2025, the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) shall submit to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/2152j–4.md?p=1) an implementation plan that outlines strategies for—
    - (A) advancing the goals described in [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2);
    - (B) hiring data and artificial intelligence officers at United States diplomatic posts; and
    - (C) allocation of necessary resources to sustain the Program.
  - (2) **Annual reporting requirement—** Not later than 180 days after December 18, 2025, and annually thereafter for the following three years, the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) shall submit a report to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/2152j–4.md?p=1) regarding the status of the implementation plan required under [paragraph (1)](#b-1).
- (c) **Appropriate congressional committees defined—** In this section, the term “[appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/2152j–4.md?p=1)” means—
  - (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
  - (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 119–60, div. E, title III, § 5301, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1592.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

For definitions of “Department” and “Secretary” as used in this section, see section 5002 of Pub. L. 119—60, set out as a note under section 2651 of this title.