NNSA DEIA Memorandum for DE-FOA0003437 13FEB2025.pdf
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This is a modification notice (Modification-0001) to Notice of Funding Opportunity DE-FOA0003437 from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), dated February 13, 2025, regarding the implementation of Executive Order 13985 on ending DEIA programs.
The modification directs all applicants to immediately suspend all Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) policies, procedures, programs, activities, and reviews until further notice. Specifically, references to DEIA requirements on pages 28 and 30 and in Attachment 6 (Glossary of Terms and Definition) of the NOFO are suspended and no longer required. This affects employee training, hiring, evaluation, promotion, and discipline programs. Applicants seeking exceptions to this suspension must submit requests to the Grants Officer, Virginia Hernandez, for approval. The underlying grant opportunity (DE-FOA0003437) is for the Nuclear Science and Engineering Consortium for Nonproliferation, which aims to fund basic research at universities complementing applied research in nuclear nonproliferation at DOE National Laboratories.
MEMO RE Removal of DEIA References
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| FAQs Posted13FEB2025.pdf | ||
| REVISED NOFO DE-FOA0003437 ( MOD-0001-13FEB2025).pdf | ||
| FOA-0003437 DNN RD NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CONSORTIUM NOFO - Posted 03JAN24.pdf |
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Department of Energy
National Nuclear Security Administration P.O. Box 5400
Albuquerque, NM 87185
Date: February 13, 2025
Subject: Modification-0001 to NOFO, DE-FOA0003437
Re: Implementation of Executive Order 13985 on Ending Radical and Wasteful Government
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Programs and Preferencing
Copy: Jonathan Baker, Deputy Director, Office of Proliferation and Detection (NA-221); Jeff Rivas, Program Manager (NA-20), Otis Dickey, General Engineer (NA-20)
On January 23, 2025, the Acting Secretary Ingrid C. Kolb issued a memorandum to suspend reference to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) policies, programs, activities, and reviews involving or relating to DEI objectives and principles until further notice. Therefore, in accordance with the referenced Executive Order, all applicants applying under the notice of funding opportunity announcement, DE- FOA0003437, are directed to immediately suspend:
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEI) policies, procedures, programs, activities, and reviews involving or relating to DEI objectives and principles until further notice.
• All DEI programs including those related to employee training, hiring, evaluation, promotion, and discipline, must be suspended.
No information with reference to DEI if applying for above referenced notice of funding opportunity announcement (NOFO) is required. Therefore, all references to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) requirement mentioned in the NOFO on Pgs. 28 and 30 and as defined on Pg. 4 in the NOFO Attachment 6: Glossary of Terms and Definition is suspended and no longer required. All references to DEI requirements under this NOFO are suspended as noted above.
If you wish to seek an exception for a DEI policy, program, or procedures, please submit a request for exception to the Grants Officer for approval.
Please contact the Grants Officer, if you have any questions regarding guidance and implementation of this correspondence. You may contact the Grants Officer at Virginia.Hernandez@nnsa.doe.gov.
mailto:Virginia.Hernandez@nnsa.doe.gov
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