State Dept. Official Named to Office of Critical Tech Protection

Drew Jones, a former intelligence operations specialist with the State Department, began a new role with the agency this month as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation’s Office of Critical Technology Protection, he announced on LinkedIn. The office creates foreign policy to "protect U.S. critical technologies and to counter the malign influence and destabilizing behavior of competitive powers," according to its mission statement. Jones has worked at the State Department since 2019.