Bureau of International Security-Nonproliferation
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Cooperation on Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy | $3,989,369.00 | Provide program support in the form of administrative and logistics support and coordination of activities for the Sustained Dialogue. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340506 |
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Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D) Safety and Security | $250,000.00 | The Department of State’s Office of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (ISN/NDF) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). ISN/NDF invites non-profit/non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, and for-profit organizations based in the United States to submit proposals for a comprehensive assessment focused on the proliferation and security risks associated with advanced AI, particularly during research and development (R&D) stages. Proposals should also address the challenges and risks of both intentional and accidental negative outcomes – including misalignment – resulting from advanced AI R&D. Proposals may not exceed the total availability of funds under this NOFO. ISN/NDF prefers proposals that fully address the scope of work, which is further described in section II of the solicitation. Please review the formal solicitation document for further application requirements. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344200 |
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Fellowship for Afghan Radiation and Nuclear Technology Experts in Support of U.S. Security and Nonproliferation Projects | $800,000.00 | The U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) Office of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (NDF) seeks to award grants to an institution/institutions to support one-year fellowships for up to five (5) of the U.S. Government’s former Afghan partners, who were previously employed by the Afghan government to regulate and promote the safe and secure use of ionizing radiation and nuclear technologies. The fellowships should employ these individuals in radiological/nuclear security and non-proliferation programming, and the individuals must lead or participate in new projects/activities that are not currently funded by the U.S. Government. Individuals will be selected by an interagency planning and assignment panel, which will determine the list of candidates and will work with the grant recipient(s) to match expertise with needs. These individuals have transitioned to life in the United States under DOS and/or Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designations (i.e., refugee, humanitarian parole, Priority-1, Priority-2) and apply for work authorization as part of that process. All proposals must make a clear and compelling case for how the fellow will be engaged in work related to nuclear/radiological threat and risk reduction for 40 hours/week, how this work supports the nonproliferation and security objectives of the U.S. Government, and how the grant funding will be used. Proposals may offer to sponsor anywhere from one to all five fellows. Fellowship proposals that do not house all five fellows will not be penalized in the evaluation panel. In-person, virtual, and hybrid formats will be considered. Please see documentation attached to the solicitation in SAMS Domestic for complete application instructions. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344460 |
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Fellowship for Counter Nuclear Smuggling in Support of U.S. Security and Nonproliferation Projects | $800,000.00 | The U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) Office of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (NDF) seeks to award grants to an institution/institutions to support one-year fellowships for up to five (5) of the U.S. Government’s former Afghan partners, who were previously employed by the Afghan government to prevent the smuggling or nuclear or radiological materials. The fellowships should employ these individuals with experience in law enforcement or security fields related to counter nuclear smuggling, and the individuals must lead or participate in new projects/activities that are not currently funded by the U.S. Government. Individuals will be selected by an interagency planning and assignment panel, which will determine the list of candidates and will work with the grant recipient(s) to match expertise with needs. These individuals have transitioned to life in the United States under DOS and/or Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designations (i.e., refugee, humanitarian parole, Priority-1, Priority-2) and apply for work authorization as part of that process. All proposals must make a clear and compelling case for how the fellow will be engaged in work related to counter nuclear smuggling for 40 hours/week, how this work supports the nonproliferation and security objectives of the U.S. Government, and how the grant funding will be used. Proposals may offer to sponsor anywhere from one to all five fellows. Fellowship proposals that do not house all five fellows will not be penalized in the evaluation panel. In-person, virtual, and hybrid formats will be considered. Please see documentation attached to solicitation in SAMS Domestic for complete application instructions. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344462 |
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Fellowship for Afghan Chemical and Biological Experts in Support of U.S. Security and Nonproliferation Projects | $800,000.00 | The U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) Office of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (NDF) seeks to award grants to an institution/institutions to support one-year fellowships for up to five (5) of the U.S. Government’s former Afghan partners, who were previously employed by the Afghan government or in chemical/biological industry/academia. The fellowships will be designed to provide support (in the form of research, guidance, training, etc.) to U.S. efforts to block Afghanistan-based terrorist access via foreign suppliers to weaponizable chemical agent precursors (including rudimentary/toxic gas precursors and other classes of threat materials), biological agents (including highly infectious endemic diseases, and especially dangerous pathogen samples), and dual use equipment (including laboratory equipment or dissemination devices, such as agricultural and other sprayer systems and fermenters). Please view the documentation attached to this solicitation on SAMS Domestic for complete application instructions. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344461 |
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Countering North Korean and Iranian WMD and Missile Proliferation | $250,000.00 | The Department of State’s Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). ISN/CTR invites non-profit/non-governmental organizations, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), international organizations, educational institutions, and for-profit organizations to submit proposals for projects that will advance the mission of the office’s UN Sanctions Compliance program. ISN/CTR prefers projects that cost less than $250,000 including overhead, though awards may involve multiple projects that cumulatively exceed $250,000. ISN/CTR sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and focuses on mitigating proliferation risk in states and regions including Eastern Europe, South, Southeast, and East Asia, the Pacific, South America, the Middle East/North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344268 |
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CTR Global Biosecurity Engagement Activities | $500,000.00 | The Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR), part of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and focuses on mitigating weapons of mass destruction (WMD), related delivery systems, and advanced conventional weapons proliferation and security threats from proliferator states and non-state actors. An underlying aim of all ISN/CTR’s efforts is long-term sustainability to maximize programmatic impact while minimizing the need for foreign partners to rely on outside financial or technical assistance. This NOFO covers one ISN/CTR lines of effort (LOE): The Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) BEP’s national security mission is to mitigate global biological threats by minimizing the access of proliferator states and non-state actors to biological expertise, materials (e.g., high consequence pathogens (HCP), pathogens and toxins included on control lists such as the U.S. Select Agent List, synthetic biological materials), and dual-use equipment that could be misused to conduct biological weapons (BW) attacks against the United States, U.S. allies, or U.S. interests abroad. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344279 |
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Supporting Partner Capabilities to Address Russian Malign Influence | $200,000.00 | The Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). ISN/CTR sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and focuses on mitigating weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and WMD-related delivery systems proliferation and security threats from non-state actors and proliferator states. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344294 |
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Addressing the Impacts of Proliferator State Advanced Conventional Weapons | $200,000.00 | The Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). ISN/CTR sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and focuses on mitigating weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and WMD-related delivery systems proliferation and security threats from non-state actors and proliferator states. ISN/CTR builds foreign partner capacity to counter proliferator state’s advanced conventional weapons (ACW) procurement and proliferation networks. The Kremlin’s recent announcement of a partial mobilization along with its need to resupply existing occupying forces in Ukraine is expected to increase Russia’s demand for additional weapon systems and critical defense technologies, either domestically produced or imported from abroad. Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to demonstrate the failures and deficiencies inherent in Russian ACW to prospective buyers. Russia’s continued war in Ukraine is pushing it closer to regimes such as Iran and PRC for access to international markets, critical supply-chains, and as seen in the case with Iran, weapons systems such as attack drones for use in Ukraine. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344296 |
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FY23 Countering the People's Republic of China (PRC) Military Civil Fusion (MCF) Strategy and Balancing the Risks and Rewards of Emerging Technologies with WMD | $500,000.00 | The Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR), part of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and focuses on mitigating weapons of mass destruction (WMD), related delivery systems, and advanced conventional weapons proliferation and security threats from proliferator states and non-state actors. An underlying aim of all ISN/CTR’s efforts is long-term sustainability to maximize programmatic impact while minimizing the need for foreign partners to rely on outside financial or technical assistance. This NOFO covers two ISN/CTR lines of effort (LOEs): 1) Countering the PRC’s MCF Strategy and 2) Balancing the Risks and Rewards of Emerging Technologies with WMD Applications. Please indicate in your submission which LOE the proposal addresses. https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344277 |