FREE WEBINAR: ON DEMAND
TITLE: Research security and the effort to protect federally funded innovation
AGENDA:
We discussed the following:
- Why research security has emerged as a more urgent national security issue
- How foreign actors can exploit largely unclassified research environments
- DoD’s recent policy and decision-making updates
- How funding agencies and universities are approaching research-security compliance
- What partner models, including Canada’s, may suggest for US policy and practice
Research Security Perspective: Mark Franco, Vice President, Research Security & Intelligence, Digital Science, will discuss approaches to identifying and addressing threats to U.S. military-related intellectual property.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- The policy push to better protect basic and applied research
- The tension between academic openness and national security requirements
- How institutions assess collaboration, funding, and disclosure risks
- The difference between inadvertent omissions and more serious misconduct
- How research security programs can integrate data from multiple functions
- What a measured, risk-based approach looks like in practice
The Pentagon is placing new emphasis on research security. Agencies and institutions are under significant pressure to protect basic and applied research from foreign exploitation. The challenge extends beyond traditional espionage and intellectual property theft to include grantmaking, international collaboration, disclosure practices, and the policies designed to prevent government-funded innovation from flowing to potential adversaries.
Breaking Defense has convened experts to examine new DoD policies and how U.S. research security is rapidly evolving. This webinar will explore how organizations are taking different approaches, from reviewing international collaboration footprints to identifying disclosure gaps and improving the use of open-source and internal agency data.
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