OpportunityTitle: Addressing the Impacts of Proliferator State Advanced Conventional Weapons
CategoryExplanation: Nonproliferation
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: The following organizations are eligible to apply (both domestic and international):   -Not-for-profit organizations   -Public and private educational institutions   -For-profit organizations  -Federally funded research and development centers    -Public International Organizations
Description: The Department of State&#8217;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 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). ISN/CTR sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and 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 builds foreign partner capacity to counter proliferator state&#8217;s advanced conventional weapons (ACW) procurement and proliferation networks. The Kremlin&#8217;s recent announcement of a partial mobilization along with its need to resupply existing occupying forces in Ukraine is expected to increase Russia&#8217;s demand for additional weapon systems and critical defense technologies, either domestically produced or imported from abroad. Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine continues to demonstrate the failures and deficiencies inherent in Russian ACW to prospective buyers. Russia&#8217;s continued war in Ukraine is pushing it closer to regimes such as Iran and PRC for access to international markets, critical supply-chains, and as seen in the case with Iran, weapons systems such as attack drones for use in Ukraine.
GrantorContactText: CTRSpecialProjectsProposals@state.gov