Countering Foreign Terrorist Organization Use of Illicit Mining
Funds an integrated counterterrorism initiative to counter foreign terrorist organization exploitation of illicit mining, including work with law enforcement, mining regulators, judges/prosecutors, and civil society.
⚑ Cooperative agreement · Foreign terrorist organization and transnational criminal organization focus · Eligibility includes public and private educational institutions, nonprofits, for-profits, PIOs, and governmental institutions
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 54 partial | portfolio topic: national_security_defense (primary); signature methods: community engaged, policy analysis; social/behavioral work is substantial; funds technical assistance, not research (capped); capped at 54 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 25 weak | technical depth: minor; funds technical assistance (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 5 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) is seeking proposals for an initiative that will address the exploitation of illicit mining by violent FTOs. Special focus should be on the relationship and involvement of FTOs and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) in the space. Competitive proposals should take an integrated approach to the threat and include civilian law enforcement, mining sector regulators, judges and prosecutors, and civil society where appropriate.
Eligibility
- Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations; - Public and private educational institutions; - For-profit organizations; and - Public International Organizations (PIOs) and Governmental institutions.
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Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
18/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is a national security/terrorism program with an environmental-resource angle through illicit mining, but the core activity is counterterrorism capacity building and stakeholder coordination rather than research. IPPRA could only be a peripheral or evaluation partner at best, and the opportunity is broadly eligible to public universities but does not strongly support a research-led social science or policy study.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a national security/terrorism program with an environmental-resource angle through illicit mining, but the core activity is counterterrorism capacity building and stakeholder coordination rather than research. IPPRA could only be a peripheral or evaluation partner at best, and the opportunity is broadly eligible to public universities but does not strongly support a research-led social science or policy study. |
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a national-security/terrorism program focused on illicit mining, criminal networks, and counter-FTO capacity, which is only tangentially related to IPPRA’s core social-science strengths. There is some possible policy and civil-society angle, but the opportunity appears operational and security-sector oriented rather than centered on behavioral, survey, or communication research. Public universities are explicitly eligible, but the topic is outside IPPRA’s main portfolio and fit remains weak. |