Nonproliferation & Arms Control Program Studies, Training, & Outreach | DE FOA 0001777

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The Nonproliferation and Arms Control Program Studies, Training, and Outreach funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number DE-FOA-0001777) is a competitive grant solicitation issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), specifically through the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (DNN) and its Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control (DNN NPAC). The core purpose of the announcement is to fund projects that support studies, training efforts, and outreach activities tied to U.S. nonproliferation and arms control priorities. In practical terms, the grant is aimed at strengthening the technical and policy ecosystem that helps prevent the spread of nuclear weapons-related capabilities, supports peaceful nuclear cooperation under effective controls, and improves the ability to verify and sustain nuclear risk-reduction and arms control outcomes.

The mission context matters because it drives what types of projects are most relevant. DNN NPAC frames its work around preventing proliferation, ensuring nuclear technologies are used peacefully, and enabling verifiable nuclear reductions. To do that, it operates through four major subprogram areas: International Nuclear Safeguards, Nuclear Export Controls, Nuclear Verification, and Nonproliferation Policy. The funded activities under this FOA are meant to reinforce and advance those subprograms, whether by producing analysis that informs U.S. decision-making, building professional capacity through training, or expanding outreach that improves understanding and adoption of safeguards, export controls, and verification practices.

The announcement emphasizes three broad categories of work. First, it supports program studies, which typically include applied research, assessments, technical or policy analyses, and other structured examinations of issues relevant to safeguards, export controls, verification, and policy. Second, it funds domestic and international training, especially in the area of International Nuclear Safeguards, with the intent of improving knowledge and operational capability among practitioners and stakeholders. Third, it supports outreach activities, again particularly connected to safeguards and nuclear controls, where engagement and information-sharing can strengthen regimes, norms, and implementation. In addition, the FOA calls out program studies specifically addressing Nuclear Verification and Nonproliferation Policy, signaling interest in work that helps the U.S. and partners understand verification challenges, evaluate options, and develop approaches that can be implemented credibly.

A notable theme in the solicitation is that DNN NPAC expects to draw from a broad base of U.S. expertise and partnerships. The FOA highlights collaboration and contributions from other government agencies, DOE/NNSA National Laboratories, universities, nongovernmental organizations, and industry. That framing suggests the program values interdisciplinary teams that can combine technical depth (for example, measurement science, safeguards technology, or verification concepts) with policy awareness and real-world implementation experience. It also signals that the funded work is intended to be usable and relevant to national and international nonproliferation and arms control systems, rather than purely academic.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary grant opportunity in the Energy funding activity category, associated with CFDA number 81.113. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning the opportunity is open to a wide range of applicant types, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications that may appear in the full announcement. The FOA anticipated making around four awards, with an award ceiling of $3,000,000 per award. The opportunity was created on August 28, 2017, and the application deadline was October 2, 2017 at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time. Overall, the grant is structured to fund a limited number of relatively substantial projects that directly support the United States' safeguards, export control, verification, and nonproliferation policy objectives through targeted studies, capacity-building training, and purposeful outreach.

• The Department of Energy, NNSA in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Nonproliferation & Arms Control Program Studies, Training, & Outreach" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.113.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 28, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Oct 02, 2017 Application deadline is October 2, 2017 1159 PM Eastern Standard Time.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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