Acquisition Regulation and Grants Regulation: Contractor and Grantee Counterterrorism Vetting

Issuing agencies

Abstract

The Department of State has identified namecheck vetting as a critical tool that can be used, where appropriate, to mitigate the risk that U.S. government activities could inadvertently benefit terrorist groups, their members, or their supporters, and is crafting rules that will address the Department's namecheck vetting process, including setting out the requirements for including vetting provisions in Department of State solicitations and awards for both grants and contracts to allow for namecheck vetting of key individuals of implementing partners and sub-contractors or sub-grantees, beneficiaries of programs, or other identified categories of individuals, when deemed appropriate by the relevant Department official.