Export Controls and Investment Screening for Critical Minerals Supply Chain
The summary for the Export Controls and Investment Screening for Critical Minerals Supply Chain grant is detailed below.
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Export Controls and Investment Screening for Critical Minerals Supply Chain: This NOFO seeks to enhance protective measures for the supply chain of critical minerals, which are commodities of proliferation concern due to their prevalence in countless dual-use items. ACN/EXBS seeks an implementer to bolster export controls, customs screening, and investment screening across key critical mineral producers and transit states worldwide to mitigate their acquisition by U.S. adversaries, while securing supply chains from predatory and illicit practices to bolster U.S. national and economic security.
| Federal Grant Title: | Export Controls and Investment Screening for Critical Minerals Supply Chain |
| Federal Agency Name: | Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation (DOS-ACN) |
| Grant Categories: | Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification) |
| Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | DFOP0018149 |
| Type of Funding: | Cooperative Agreement |
| CFDA Numbers: | 19.317 |
| CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
| Current Application Deadline: | July 20th, 2026 |
| Original Application Deadline: | July 20th, 2026 |
| Posted Date: | May 18th, 2026 |
| Creation Date: | May 18th, 2026 |
| Archive Date: | July 19th, 2026 |
| Total Program Funding: | $5,409,250 |
| Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $5,409,250 |
| Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $0 |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
| Last Updated: | May 18th, 2026 |
- Category Explanation
- Export controls and border security, nonproliferation.
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification.)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- The following U.S. or foreign organizations are eligible to apply: Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations. Public and private educational institutions. For-profit organizations (only if allowed by appropriation - not for PD funds), applications submitted by for-profit entities may be subject to additional review following the panel selection process. Additionally, the Department of State prohibits profit to for-profit or commercial organizations under its assistance awards.
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