The purpose of this award is to help EXBS partners in the Western Hemisphere build capacity to implement and enforce strategic trade controls and related mechanisms (e.g., foreign direct investment screening regimes) to mitigate proliferation risks. The U.S. Department of State, International Security and Nonproliferation,
Office of Export Control Cooperation (ISN/ECC) announces an open
competition for organizations (see eligibility information in C.1) interested in
submitting application to implement a project aimed at advancing U.S.
foreign policy and national security priorities by supporting initiatives that
make decision-making structures and processes in fragile, conflict, or crisisaffected contexts more reflective of and responsive to the needs and
perspectives of partner states to ensure strategic trade control systems
meet international standards and by engaging on bilateral, regional and
multilateral levels with foreign governments to aid in the establishment of
independent capabilities to regulate transfers of weapons of mass
destruction, WMD-related items, conventional arms, and related dual-use
items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of
such items.
ISN/ECC invites U.S. non-profit organizations, Domestic & Foreign For-Profit
Organizations. For-profit recipients who do not have a formally established
overhead or G&A rate should allocate indirect costs into the appropriate
direct cost categories (must waive fee/for profit); U.S. and foreign
educational institutions, international NGOs, and Public International
Organizations to submit cooperative agreement proposals. ISN/ECC has
approximately $2.6M available to fund this project.