Deadline: 30-Jul-25
U.S. adversaries, including China, are seeking advanced and emerging technologies to advance their military capabilities and to develop and deploy weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and advanced conventional weapons against the United States.
Goals and Objectives
- ISN/CTR seeks proposals to advance the National Security Presidential Memorandum -3, America First Investment Policy by stopping Chinese firms and researchers from stealing U.S. intellectual property and sensitive technologies to enable the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army from developing and deploying dual-use technologies, WMDs, advanced conventional weapons, and conducting malicious cyberattacks that threaten U.S. security. Proposed projects should include, but are not limited to, trainings, tools, mentorship, and risk assessments for governments, academia, and private industry that prevent or slow military advancement that is being pursued through the exploitation of the international scientific enterprise, global technology supply chain, and commercial ventures.
- For all proposed activities, applicants will be expected to use grant funds to pay for event logistics, catering, translation and interpretation, and costs related to travel for participants (with the exception of high-income foreign partners) and subject matter experts.
Funding Information
- Total available funding: $30,000,000 Pending availability of funds
- Award amounts: Awards may range from a minimum of $250,000 to a maximum of $1,000,000
Duration
- Length of performance period is 12-24 months.
Eligible Activities
Possible activities include, but are not limited to:
- Raise awareness in tech and research communities of dual-use applications of technologies and promote adoption of security measures to block adversary acquisition of technology.
- Establish or improve national and institutional level research security and integrity policies and practices prevent exploitation of international research collaborations.
- Enhance institutional data security measures to mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities and block cybertheft of dual-use data and IP.
- Improve physical security, personnel reliability, and due diligence best practices to secure technology supply chains to prevent diversion of dual-use technologies to U.S. adversaries.
- Enable foreign decisionmakers to identify and mitigate risks of military use of joint scientific facilities/laboratories, commercial entities, and non-trusted smart city vendors to conduct military and surveillance activities.
- Provide tools and case studies to support key foreign partners to deny China access to sensitive technologies.
- Prevent the development and use of AI by U.S. adversaries to strengthen their military, intelligence, and surveillance capabilities.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- U.S. for-profit organizations or businesses;
- U.S.-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations with or without 501(c) (3) status of the U.S. tax code;
- U.S.-based private, public, or state institutions of higher education;
- foreign-based non-profit organizations/non-government organizations (NGO);
- Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs);
- Public International Organizations (PIO);
- Foreign Public Entities (FPE); and foreign-based institutions of higher education.
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