9. Agency for International Development · Minor
Move Automated Directives System oversight from Management Bureau to BPRM
Printed page 271 9. Agency for International Development
“The Administration should also move the responsibility for reviewing and processing proposed changes in USAID’s policy bible, the Automated Directives System (ADS), from the Management Bureau to the new BPRM.”
What has happened
- Not started
USAID notified Congress on 2025-03-28 that it would realign some functions to the State Department by 1 July 2025 and discontinue the rest, and on 2025-07-01 the Secretary of State announced that USAID officially ceased implementing foreign assistance. USAID's Automated Directives System ceased to be the operative policy framework when the agency stopped implementing foreign assistance, and no responsibility for reviewing changes to it was moved anywhere. Federal Register full text "Automated Directives System" returns 0 documents for the window. Cluster negative search A in docs/research/ch-09.md (round 3, ticket 11, batch 11b) covers this item: Federal Register full text for the named object over the whole window, the state.gov sitemap URL list (68,040 URLs), and the 119th-Congress nomination record.
- Secretary Rubio press statement: On Delivering an America First Foreign Assistance Program - notice to Congress of the USAID reorganization, realigning some functions to State by 1 July 2025 and discontinuing the rest
- Marco Rubio, "Making Foreign Aid Great Again" (State Department Spanish text): from 1 July 2025 USAID officially ceases to implement foreign assistance, which passes to the Department of State
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Research notes
Researched 2026-08-28.
- Action
- transfer
- Object
- Review of changes to the Automated Directives System (ADS)
- ID
- 723