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Request for Applications: Countering North Korean and Iranian WMD, Missile, and UAS Proliferation

United States: Tribal Self-Governance Negotiation Cooperative Agreement Program

Deadline: 31-Jan-24

The Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this funding opportunity focuses on mitigating weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and WMD-related delivery systems proliferation and security threats from non-state actors and proliferator states.

ISN/CTR sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) and other accounts. An underlying aim of all ISN/CTR’s efforts is long-term sustainability to maximize programmatic impact while minimizing the need for foreign partners to rely on outside financial or technical assistance.

While the United States continues to seek negotiations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to reach the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, it maintains the policy that international pressure and sanctions must remain in force until the DPRK fully denuclearizes. ISN/CTR supports the pressure campaign against the DPRK by training partners to implement United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) constraining the DPRK’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation, to detect and halt DPRK-linked sanctions evasion activities, and to impede the DPRK’s material and financial activities that fund the development of WMD and related delivery systems. ISN/CTR achieves this mission through capacity-building programs, open-source research, and other specialized efforts, all of which help at-risk countries detect and shut down financial and material flows to the DPRK. This NOFO solicits proposals aimed at curtailing DPRK revenue generation activities, restricting the flow of refined petroleum to the DPRK to remain under the annual UNSCR-mandated cap, and improving broader implementation on DPRK sectoral sanctions.

Iran continues to develop and produce ballistic missiles (BMs) that directly threaten the United States, the partners and allies, and enable its destabilizing activities in the region. Iran continues to supply advanced unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to Russia in support of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, and supplies versions of those UAS to its regional proxies. Both programs rely on materials and technologies produced outside Iran. Iran’s procurements include components that are not covered by international trade controls, and they require both the movement of physical goods into Iran and transactions through foreign financial institutions. This NOFO solicits proposals specifically aimed at countering the development of, and the advancements in, Iran’s ballistic missile and UAS programs by disrupting Iranian acquisition of proliferation sensitive technologies, materials, and expertise, and at improving international adherence to relevant U.S. and other sanctions.

Objectives
Project Proposals

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

Funding Information
Eligibility Criteria

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