or university in selected fields of study representing the needs of the Department of State, including any field listed in paragraph (1). 5. Reports (a) Initial report Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on a plan to establish the Represent America Mid-Career Foreign Service Entry Program. (b) Annual update Annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on the status of the Represent America Mid-Career Foreign Service Entry Program. Each such report shall include the following information with respect to the previous year: (1) The number of candidates approved for the program. (2) The number of candidates who began participating, including anonymized information on such candidates’ backgrounds with respect to education and prior work experience and grade level at which the candidate entered the Foreign Service. (3) A breakdown of the number of participants recruited into and advancing from the program by ethnicity and sex. (4) A disaggregation by Foreign Service cone and post (including identifying whether the post is hard-to-fill) assigned to each participant advancing from the program. (5) Program attrition rates and retention data, including information on how such data compares to the data reported in the most recent prior submission of such report. (6) Information on the Department’s recruiting efforts for the program, including an outreach strategy detailing resources allocated to outreach, as well as where, how, and when outreach will be carried out. (7) Information on the Department’s efforts to improve the efficacy of the program and promote retention of program participants.