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What is a defense article?

Defense articles are all items, data specifically designed, developed, configured, adapted, or modified for a military application. Defense articles are listed on the U.S. Munitions List (22 CFR Section 121.1).

Who or what is considered a U.S. Person?

An individual with U.S. citizenship, Permanent resident alien (Green Card holder) or protected individual status such as refugees and asylees. Corporations or organizations incorporated in the United States are

U.S. Persons for purposes of the ITAR and EAR. It is also any business entity incorporated to do business in the United States.

What is a foreign entity?

A foreign entity is any corporation, business association, partnership, trust, society or any other entity or group that is not incorporated or organized to do business in the United States, as well as international organizations, foreign governments and any agency or subdivision of foreign governments. A person (even a U.S. citizen) is considered a foreign person if they work for or represent a foreign entity.

Who qualifies as a “bona fide employee” for ITAR purposes?

Export control regulations exempt disclosures of unclassified technical data in the United States by U.S. universities to foreign nationals where:

(1) the foreign national is the University’s bona fide full-time regular employee;

(2) the employee’s permanent abode throughout the period of employment is in the United States;

(3) the employee is not a national of an embargoed country; and

What is not subject to the deemed export rule?

For University research, there are three ways that technical information may qualify for an exclusion from the deemed export rule. Information is excluded if it:

Is published or disseminated in the Public Domain
Arises during, or results from, fundamental research
Is educational information released by instruction in catalog courses or associated teaching laboratories of academic institutions.

2021 July NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Research Partnerships track

UA may submit one proposal under the Research Partnerships track.

There is no institutional limitation on the Technology Translation track; however, we encourage you to contact Kaushik Balakrishnan, Ph.D., for industry engagement and proposal development support. Contact RDS if you are interested in applying to the Technology Translation track.

External Deadline

07/14/2021

Internal Deadline

May 19, 2021

Program URL

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19506/nsf19506.htm