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DFOP0018149: Export Controls and Investment Screening for Critical Minerals Supply Chain

Closed Closed July 20, 2026 Opportunity DFOP0018149 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$5.4 million
• Total funding$5.4 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

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.

Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

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.

Category: Other.

We found no grant awards under Assistance Listing 19.317 in fiscal 2021 to 2025, which usually means the program is new or very small.

Applying now

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