Export Controls and Investment Screening for Critical Minerals Supply Chain
Funds an implementer to strengthen export controls, customs screening, and investment screening for critical minerals supply chains in producer and transit states worldwide to protect U.S. national and economic security.
⚑ Cooperative agreement; implementer/model and programmatic coordination likely expected. · For-profit applicants may be subject to additional review and cannot earn profit under State assistance awards. · Focus is overseas capacity-building and screening practices, not research.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 50 partial | technical depth: substantial; funds technical assistance (capped) |
| IPPRA | 40 partial | portfolio topic: national_security_defense (primary); signature methods: policy analysis, community engaged; social/behavioral work is minor; funds technical assistance, not research (capped); capped at 40 (non-research funding) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 10 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
This NOFO seeks to enhance protective measures for the supply chain of critical minerals, which are commodities of proliferation concern due to their prevalence in countless dual-use items. ACN/EXBS seeks an implementer to bolster export controls, customs screening, and investment screening across key critical mineral producers and transit states worldwide to mitigate their acquisition by U.S. adversaries, while securing supply chains from predatory and illicit practices to bolster U.S. national and economic security.
Eligibility
The following U.S. or foreign organizations are eligible to apply: Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations. Public and private educational institutions. For-profit organizations (only if allowed by appropriation - not for PD funds), applications submitted by for-profit entities may be subject to additional review following the panel selection process. Additionally, the Department of State prohibits profit to for-profit or commercial organizations under its assistance awards.
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