eye towards ensuring compliance with chemical weapons convention and biological weapons convention, bwc. dhs contracts for life science research that involves use of select agents and toxins or that requires special biosafety provisions. in all cases, we ensure that contracts contain clauses to ensure conformity with applicable laws, regulations and internal policies. in addition, research contracts for life sciences work typically provide for dhs to object to publication or disclosure. further, depending on the type of proposed publication or disclosure, the information to be released must go through an internal review process. in the unlikely event that sensitive or classified material is produced from research projects funded through grants to academia, dhs requires grant recipients to create information protection plans which detail how the information would be identified and secured. now i've been discussing the internal management of durc within dhs. let me now turn briefly to the broader durc issue. dhs has been an extremely active participant in the formulation of the u.s. gover

mechanism for assistance for them doing it, but the assistance is not going to be assistance ala the cwc or bwc. this is going to be assistance for capacity building in the treaty for building up the capacity to implement the arms trade treaty. the biggest problem in july four weeks is not much time at all. i worked on the conference on disarmament between 1994 and 2005. so i was there when they negotiated the cbt. that was a negotiation that took three years. and the cd meets for 24 weeks a year. you're talking about 72 weeks of meetings that produced the nuclear test ban treaty. we have four weeks in july to produce an arms trade treaty. the subject that is dealing with the arms trade gets at the ability of states to defend themselves. that's one of the most basic security concerns states have. it gets at really sensitivicious. it's going to be challenging to negotiate this. the time is going to be a big problem. but again, i'm hopeful. >> it's also going to be the major arms treat at this time that will be concluded for a long while. so i'd like to thank all our panelists here for providing

tiered process in order to make sure that experiments do full and fall -- full compliance with the bwc. what we've done, though, because of the alignment of the 29 march policy and the work that we have done previously, we essentially have a leg up on the implementation of the 29 march policy. >> okay. and just to take this one step further. on the board on which you sit, is this to determine governmentwide policy or also to approve particular projects or to evaluate particular research projects? >> these are internal boards that are designed to look at the department's experimentation. the projects that we're to be conducting. >> okay. and then finally, just give us a sense, and i don't think you have to get into too much detail here, about how widely dual-use research projects are being carried out or funded in the federal government. the natural place to think about it is nih. but i presume dod is also doing funding projects, et cetera? >> well, senator, i'd like to stick to my department and just tell you what we're doing in the department of homeland security. we, through our revi

requirements, so we do that process in order to take short that excrements fall in compliance with the bwcially have a leg up on the implementation of the 29 march policy. >> okay. and, just to take this one step further and, the border in which you sit, is this to determine the government policy or also to approve of particular projects or evaluate particular research projects. >> these are internal words that are designed to look at the department's experimentations. the project that we are to be conducting. >> okay. and then finally, just give us a sense that -- and i don't and you have to go into much detail here about how widely their graduates are being carried out or funded in the federal government. in other words, the natural place to think about is nih but i presume the dod is also doing funding projects, etc.. >> welcome senator, i would like to stick to my department and just tell you what we are doing in the department of homeland security. we come through our review process, compliance review look at a total of about 200 projects that fall into what we call your one regular e