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Al Arabiya
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Longtime State Department spokesman, diplomat Richard Boucher, dies at 73
Richard Boucher, who served for more than a decade as the spokesman for the State Department and assistant secretary of state for public affairs, has died at age 73, according to friends and family. He died on Thursday in a hospital in northern Virginia after a battle with an aggressive form of cancer, according to two people close to his family. Boucher had been the face of US foreign policy at the State Department podium across administrations throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, beginning in the George H.W. Bush presidency and continuing through Bill Clinton's and George W. Bush's terms in office. Boucher served as the spokesman for secretaries of state James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice. In a career that took him from the Peace Corps through Africa and Asia as well as in Washington, Boucher also served as US Consul General in Hong Kong during the 1997 handover of the territory from Britain to China and later used the skills he learned there to help orchestrate an end to the US–China spy plane crisis in early 2001. After leaving the spokesman's job, Boucher became assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia and was then ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Retired veteran CBS journalist Charles Wolfson, who worked with Boucher for years, lauded him as an effective State Department spokesman but also a valued professional colleague and friend. 'He was a superb diplomat, an excellent spokesman, and an even better human being,' Wolfson said.
The Independent
10 hours ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Longtime State Department spokesman, diplomat Richard Boucher, dies at 73
Richard Boucher, who served for more than a decade as the spokesman for the State Department and assistant secretary of state for public affairs, has died at age 73, according to friends and family. He died on Thursday in a hospital in northern Virginia after a battle with an aggressive form of cancer, according to two people close to his family. Boucher had been the face of U.S. foreign policy at the State Department podium across administrations throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, beginning in the George H.W. Bush presidency and continuing through Bill Clinton's and George W. Bush's terms in office. Boucher served as the spokesman for secretaries of state James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. In a career that took him from the Peace Corps though Africa and Asia as well as in Washington, Boucher also served as U.S. Consul General Hong Kong during the 1997 handover of the territory from Britain to China, and later used the skills he learned there to help orchestrate an end to the U.S.-China spy plane crisis in early 2001. After leaving the spokesman's job, Boucher became assistant secretary of state for state for South and Central Asia and was then ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Retired veteran CBS journalist Charles Wolfson, who worked with Boucher for years, lauded him as an effective State Department spokesman but also a valued professional colleague and friend. 'He was a superb diplomat, an excellent spokesman and an even better human being,' Wolfson said.
Washington Post
10 hours ago
- Health
- Washington Post
Longtime State Department spokesman, diplomat Richard Boucher, dies at 73
WASHINGTON — Richard Boucher, who served for more than a decade as the spokesman for the State Department and assistant secretary of state for public affairs, has died at age 73, according to friends and family. He died on Thursday in a hospital in northern Virginia after a battle with an aggressive form of cancer, according to two people close to his family.
Associated Press
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Associated Press
Longtime State Department spokesman, diplomat Richard Boucher, dies at 73
WASHINGTON (AP) — Richard Boucher, who served for more than a decade as the spokesman for the State Department and assistant secretary of state for public affairs, has died at age 73, according to friends and family. He died on Thursday in a hospital in northern Virginia after a battle with an aggressive form of cancer, according to two people close to his family. Boucher had been the face of U.S. foreign policy at the State Department podium across administrations throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, beginning in the George H.W. Bush presidency and continuing through Bill Clinton's and George W. Bush's terms in office. Boucher served as the spokesman for secretaries of state James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. In a career that took him from the Peace Corps though Africa and Asia as well as in Washington, Boucher also served as U.S. Consul General Hong Kong during the 1997 handover of the territory from Britain to China, and later used the skills he learned there to help orchestrate an end to the U.S.-China spy plane crisis in early 2001. After leaving the spokesman's job, Boucher became assistant secretary of state for state for South and Central Asia and was then ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Retired veteran CBS journalist Charles Wolfson, who worked with Boucher for years, lauded him as an effective State Department spokesman but also a valued professional colleague and friend. 'He was a superb diplomat, an excellent spokesman and an even better human being,' Wolfson said.
Associated Press
02-04-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
NetBox Labs Announces Availability of NetBox Assurance
NetBox Labs, the company behind NetBox, the world's most popular open source network and infrastructure management platform, today announced that NetBox Assurance is now available for customers. NetBox Assurance enables IT teams to maintain accurate documentation and understanding of their network operations. It detects operational drift, the differences between the intended network state (what is documented in NetBox) and the operational network state (what is actually running in the network). Finding and resolving operational drift is a game-changer for IT teams relying on accurate documentation as the foundation for network and infrastructure automation, compliance and security, and operational excellence. With NetBox Assurance, teams accelerate automation, reduce time to resolve network performance issues, and speed operations. 'Since our announcement at AutoCon2 in November, we've seen massive demand for NetBox Assurance from organizations looking to solve the eternal challenge of keeping operational infrastructure in line with intended configuration,' said Kris Beevers, CEO of NetBox Labs. 'The enthusiastic participation in our private preview has validated our vision: network teams need powerful, accessible tools to manage and observe their network, maintain accurate documentation, and remain in control of their network configurations.' NetBox Assurance works in conjunction with NetBox Discovery, which includes powerful observability capabilities for network discovery, device discovery, and a growing list of controller discovery integrations with platforms like VMWare vCenter, Juniper Mist, Cisco Catalyst Center, Microsoft DHCP, and AWS VPC IPAM. These integrations help pull the latest information from the network for processing in NetBox Assurance. The solution supports multiple use cases across the network lifecycle: Day 1 - Initial NetBox Population: Teams can rapidly populate an empty NetBox instance while maintaining full control over data quality Day 1.5 - Network Management Maturity: Organizations can continuously improve their documentation processes by identifying areas needing attention, accelerating transformation and automation initiatives Day 2 - Operational Control: Teams can detect and remediate drift immediately, reducing downtime risk, accelerating issue resolution, and reducing the infrastructure attack surface 'With NetBox Assurance, we've addressed one of the most persistent challenges in network operations – the gap between what you think your network looks like and what it actually looks like,' said Richard Boucher, Senior Product Manager at NetBox Labs. 'By closing this gap, we're enabling network teams to operate with greater confidence, security, and control.' NetBox Assurance is built on the foundation of Diode, a source-available project from NetBox Labs that offers a subset of NetBox Assurance functionality. Both solutions share a common API for data ingestion through the Diode SDK, which provides an alternative interface for sending data to NetBox with built-in idempotence, automatic ordering, and other capabilities that simplify the development of high-performance integrations. NetBox Assurance is now available for customers to demo and purchase as an optional add-on for both NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise, with tiered pricing based on the volume of ingested entities per month. The NetBox Discovery observability agent is included with NetBox Assurance, while agent extensions are available in Standard and Premium bundles for Professional and Enterprise tiers. NetBox Labs supports the network and infrastructure community with a growing portfolio of innovative products that span the network operations, observability, security, and automation space. In addition to SaaS and self-managed versions of enterprise-grade NetBox, the company offers airgapped installations, NetBox Discovery, and a growing suite of AI features that enable AI-driven network and infrastructure management. For more information about NetBox Assurance or to request access to the preview, visit or contact [email protected]. About NetBox Labs NetBox Labs makes sense of complex networks and infrastructure. We enable network and IT teams to accelerate automation by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network and infrastructure automation community. NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, the world's most popular platform for operating, understanding, automating, and securing networks and infrastructure. NetBox Labs delivers a world class portfolio of network and infrastructure management products. NetBox is the world's most popular source of truth for documenting, modeling, and automating networks and infrastructure, NetBox Discovery accelerates network and infrastructure documentation and observability, and NetBox Assurance helps teams identify, understand, and eliminate operational drift. NetBox Labs products are delivered through NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise with advanced features for AI, security, collaboration, and automation. Contact: Kiley Nichols
