The Department of State's (DOS), Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (AVC), through the Key Verification Assets Fund, or V Fund, seeks ambitious, innovative research proposals to address its priority science and technology requirements for arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament-related monitoring and verification. The V Fund is administered to help sustain, research, develop, or acquire technologies or programs relating to the verification of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments.