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$45,428,610

Department of State·Department of State

to MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER

diplomacyactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-01-08·LATEST ACTION2026-05-08·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_SECAGD24CA0020_019
Award description

THIS AWARD SUPPORTS MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE FY 2024 INTERNATIONAL VISITORS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM. THIS AWARD SUPPORTS $833,179 IN ADMINISTRATIVE FUNDS AND $152,210 IN PROGRAM FUNDS TOTALING $985,389 TO DATE OF FUNDS AUTHORIZED.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

2024 obligation increment for the International Visitors Leadership Program, supporting foreign-leader cultural and professional exchange.

Sub-sectors
cultural-exchangeinternational-engagementstate-dept-operations
Why this matters

Sustains State Department's strategic cultural diplomacy with future global leaders, strengthening U.S. diplomatic relationships and influence.

U.S.–China competition angle

Part of U.S. soft-power strategy competing with China and Russia for influence among global leaders.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-11. Cost: $0.020989.

Period of performance
Start
2024-01-08
End
2027-03-31
Status
activein 261 days
Sources

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