NOFO: Countering North Korean and Iranian WMD and Missile Proliferation

Deadline: 31-Jan-23

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.

Objectives

As part of the U.S. government’s effort to use all available tools to ensure maximum compliance with international sanctions on the DPRK and Iran, ISN/CTR trains key public and private stakeholders to understand their obligations and take measures to fully implement relevant sanctions on those states. ISN/CTR does not support activities related to the training, engagement, or redirection of DPRK or Iranian nationals or government or non-government agencies in those two countries.

Activities

ISN/CTR seeks proposals that address the following DPRK and Iranian sanctions evasion activities:

Cybersecurity
Counter-Proliferation Finance
Maritime Sanctions Implementation
Proliferation-Sensitive Transfers
DPRK Sectoral Sanctions
Open-Source Research

Funding Information

Length of performance period: 12 Months
Number of awards anticipated: 20-50 awards (dependent on amounts)
Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $50,000 to a maximum of $250,000
Total available funding: $8,350,000

Priority Regions

ISN/CTR’s UN Sanctions Compliance program prioritizes capacity-building efforts for countries that face a range of DPRK and Iranian sanctions-evasion threats, with partner states across East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America and the Caribbean, and selected countries in the Middle East/North Africa and in Europe. ISN/CTR encourages proposal submissions that address vulnerabilities associated with the threat environments in each country. Some priority countries can benefit from programmatic efforts highlighted within multiple categories. Importantly, with extremely limited exceptions, ISN/CTR will not provide foreign assistance to high-income countries (e.g., EU Member States, the Republic of Korea, France, Japan, or Saudi Arabia).