Nonproliferation Programs
meeting evolving nonproliferation challenges “If you want to avoid proliferation, you want a country that is stable, is prosperous, and is engaged with the rest of the world. That involves, at its core, the scientists and engineers who were there and involved in dirty weapons programs. We must integrate them and provide them with a future with the West.” —Dr. David Kay, former United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector and CRDF Board Member
Effective, Efficient Implementer of Nonproliferation Programs
A Broad, Responsive Scientific Network • We have built an unparalleled network for those seeking partners for security, scientific or precommercial research and development. • CRDF has engaged over 13,000 foreign scientists, including 3,000 former weapons scientists abroad. • We have a network of over 23,000 U.S. scientists in all disciplines to conduct peer review of international collaborative projects. • To date, CRDF has committed $38 million to more than 500 cooperative projects in a wide array of institutes and private facilities around the globe.
Cutting-Edge Innovation and Commercialization
• CRDF is a key partner in implementing government and private programs to halt proliferation.
• One of our best assets is our ability to transition weapons research to sustainable civilian commercial activity.
• CRDF programs give priority to former weapons researchers and engage them in productive civilian research and development.
• CRDF’s industry programs link U.S. businesses with promising processes and technologies developed abroad.
• CRDF has a broad range of capabilities from engagement of individual researchers to conversion of WMD-capable facilities to civilian use.
• We have designed and implemented a wide range of business training and transition to market programs.
• We implement key elements of the Department of State’s Global Threat Reduction (GTR) program in the former Soviet Union, Libya, Iraq, South and Southeast Asia.
• Our partners are developing new products, patents and medical treatments for the market.
• We support Department of Defense programs managing cooperative biological research projects on dangerous pathogens in Georgia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan through the Biological Threat Reduction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. • Our Grant Assistance Program (GAP) provides financial and logistical services to the Department of Energy’s Global Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention.
• Respected outside analysts cite CRDF’s programs as the most effective at creating sustainable, civilian work for former WMD scientists.
“At present, no tool in the U.S. nonproliferation arsenal can effectively marshal the necessary communities for efficacious, cost-effective, and sustainable models of scientific engagement better than the Civilian Research & Development Foundation.” —Henry L. Stimson Center 2007 report, Cooperative Nonproliferation: Getting Further, Faster
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November | 2009