EXBS Legal & Regulatory Support

The Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation is seeking applicants for the EXBS Legal & Regulatory Support program. This program aims to address evolving nonproliferation threats across key nodes of the global strategic trade and technology ecosystems in Asia and Europe. The program will focus on strengthening legal and regulatory frameworks, institutional and industry compliance, and data-driven enforcement capabilities to prevent the proliferation of WMD-related, defense, and other sensitive technologies to end-users and activities of concern. • The program will be implemented in several countries, including the Philippines, Cambodia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Türkiye, and Ukraine. • The program will respond to the risk that weak or incomplete export control and foreign direct investment screening systems could allow diversion of dual-use goods, advanced technologies, and critical minerals to proliferators or malign actors. • The program will tackle the threat that persistent, sophisticated networks will exploit gaps in supply chain, financial, and logistics controls to obtain the world’s most advanced AI-relevant semiconductors and other dual-use technologies. • The program will confront documented diversion and transshipment risks posed by intermediary-dependent trade routes and the absence of widespread private-sector internal compliance programs that meet international expectations.