NASA Partners with Saudi Arabia on Moon and Asteroid Research

I am reading this article, NASA Partners with Saudi Arabia on Moon and Asteroid Research, on NASA's website.
According to this article NASA's Lunar Science Institute's, at Ames Research Center in Moffett Field in California, purpose is to conduct advanced lunar science and to train the next generation of explorers and lunar scientists.
The Saudi Lunar and Near Earth Object Science Center was established as a focal point for Near Earth Object(NEO) studies and lunar science in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by an international interest in lunar science and near Earth objects.
This collaboration between the two research facilities occurs after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Science and Technology last year by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the USA.