Responsible Collaboration Through Appropriate Research Security [Video]

A Workshop To Discuss and Study the Emergent Discipline of Research on Research Security

A topic largely forgotten after the Cold War, research security has reemerged as a top national security concern for academia and the government. The renewed attention on research security issues was brought into sharp, public focus in 2018, when the National Institutes of Health raised concerns about foreign governments using systematic programs to compromise the U.S. research ecosystem as part of the Department of Justice’s China Initiative. Foreign covert programs aim to illegally acquire U.S. federally funded research, which is built on a tradition of openness, transparency, impartiality, respect, and fairness (Collins 2018). That research is the bedrock of the current and future U.S. economy in which a rules-based order protects against the theft of innovations produced by sponsored research.

These concerns were addressed in new research security policies enacted under the United States Government- Supported …