[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 185 (Monday, September 26, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-23667]
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ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY
Announcement of the William C. Foster Fellows Visiting Scholars
Program for the 1995-96 School Year
The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) will conduct a
competition for selection of visiting scholars to participate in ACDA's
activities during the 1995-96 academic year.
Section 28 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22 U.S.C. 2568)
provides that ``A program for visiting scholars in the field of arms
control, nonproliferation, and disarmament shall be established by the
Director in order to obtain the services of scholars from the faculties
of recognized institutions of higher learning.'' The law states that
``The purpose of the program will be to give specialists in the
physical sciences and other disciplines relevant to the Agency's
activities an opportunity for active participation in the arms control,
nonproliferation, and disarmament activities of the Agency and to gain
for the Agency the perspective and expertise such persons can offer * *
*. Fellows shall be chosen by a board consisting of the Director, who
shall be the chairperson, and all former Directors of the Agency.''
Scholars are known as William C. Foster Fellows, in honor of the first
Director of ACDA, William C. Foster, who served from the inception of
ACDA in 1961 until 1969.
ACDA began this program by competitively selecting six visiting
scholars for the 1984-85 academic year. The competition has continued
each subsequent academic year until the present. One-year assignments
will begin at a mutually agreeable time after successful completion of
all employment requirements.
Positions are available in the Bureau of Strategic and Eurasian
Affairs (SEA), the Bureau of Multilateral Affairs (MA), the Bureau of
Intelligence, Verification and Information Support (IVI), and the
Bureau of Nonproliferation Policy and Regional Arms Control (NP). A
brochure is available describing these positions in detail. Evaluation
of applicants for appointments to these positions will focus upon the
scholar's potential for providing expertise or performing services
needed by ACDA, rather than on the scholar's previously displayed
interest in arms control. While pursuit of the scholar's own line of
research may sometimes be possible, support of such activity is not the
purpose of the program.
Visiting scholars will be detailed to ACDA by their universities;
the universities will be compensated for the scholar's salary and
benefits in accordance with the Intergovernmental Personnel Act and
within Agency limitations. Visiting scholars will also receive
reimbursement for travel to and from the Washington, D.C. area for
their one-year assignment and either a per diem allowance during the
one-year assignment or relocation costs.
Visiting scholars must be citizens of the United States, on the
faculty of a recognized institution of higher learning, and tenured or
on a tenure track or equivalent; they also must have served as a
permanent career employee of the institution for at least ninety days
before selection for the program. ACDA is an equal opportunity
employer. Selections will be made without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, age, or physical handicap that does not
interfere with performance of duties. Prior to appointment applicants
will be subject to a full-field background security investigation for a
Top Secret security clearance, as required by Section 45 of the Arms
Control and Disarmament Act. Visiting scholars will also be subject to
applicable Federal conflict of interest laws and standards of conduct.
To apply, candidates are asked to submit a letter outlining their
interests and qualifications, a curriculum vitae, copies of two
publications, and additional supporting material such as letters of
reference. The application deadline for assignments for the 1995-1996
academic year is January 31, 1995, subject to extension at ACDA's
discretion. ACDA expects to announce tentative selections in the spring
of 1995.
To request an information brochure, please write to: Visiting
Scholars Program, Office of Operations Analysis and Information
Management, Room 5726, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 320
21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20451 or call on (703) 302-7714.
Dated: September 20, 1994.
Alfred Lieberman,
Chief of Operations Analysis and Information Management.
[FR Doc. 94-23667 Filed 9-23-94; 8:45 am]
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