1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Embassy in a Box Act of 2024 . 2. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to equip the Department of State with the tools necessary to stand up new diplomatic missions efficiently and effectively in advance of United States strategic interests around the world. An embassy in a box approach establishes expedited processes to provide the physical resources new diplomatic missions needed, particularly in austere locations. 3. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Increasing the United States global diplomatic footprint is imperative to advance United States’ national security interests, particularly in the face of a massive diplomatic expansion of the People’s Republic of China. (2) Adding more diplomatic missions, often in small island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans as well as the Caribbean Sea, will lay down the diplomatic infrastructure needed to compete with the People's Republic of China. (3) Diplomatic missions should be resourced and equipped for success as soon as, or even before, they open in order to allow diplomats to focus on advancing United States national interests in-country, instead of navigating bureaucratic processes. (4) Successfully opening new missions is not simply a choice between expediency and quality. The United States can move more swiftly to open new missions while still putting United States diplomats in a positions to get to work immediately. (5) To avoid this binary, the Department of State has to reduce the bureaucratic obstacles inhibiting current and future diplomats at new missions, while positively identifying ways that the Department can best support them. 4. Report to Congress (a) In general Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to appropriate congressional committees a report on how the Department of State is creating an embassy in a box concept to provide new missions the needed resources and authorities to successfully and quickly stand up and