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Enhancing Protective Measures for the Supply Chain of Critical Minerals is sponsored by U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation (ACN/EXBS). 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.
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