Agency Training Requirements

Issued on October 7, 2024, this document outlines DOE's implementation of research security training requirements for covered individuals on financial assistance applications and for organizations applying for an award. The requirement was effective immediately but not mandatory until May 1, 2025. The training requirement is satisfied either by completion of the four training modules created by NSF, completion of the SECURE Center CTM (as indicated per DOE post FAL), or by a custom training program that is aligned with the CHIPS and Science Act Section 10634(b). Per DOE the training must be completed within the 12 months immediately preceding the application submission, consistent with the CHIPS Act requirements, and any covered individuals added to the project must certify that they have completed the training within 30 calendar days of joining the project.

Effective October 1, 2025, recipient institutions must train senior/key personnel on the requirement to disclose all research activities and affiliations in Other Support and maintain a 'written and enforced policy on requirements for the disclosure of other support to ensure Senior/Key Personnel fully understand their responsibility to disclose.'

Published July 10, 2025. Includes NSF implementation of three new requirements (and three existing ones) in alignment with the CHIPS and Science Act and NSPM-33. The requirements, effective October 10, 2025, include: a. Recipient institutions must maintain supporting documentation for foreign activities reported as current and pending (other) support, b. Senior/key personnel must certify they have completed research security training (RST) within 12 months prior to proposal submission; Recipient institutions' Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR) must certify that all senior/key personnel have completed required RST and that the institution has a plan to provide appropriate training, c. AORs at institutions of higher education (IHEs) must certify that, absent a waiver granted by the NSF Director, the IHE does not maintain a contract or agreement between the institution and a Confucius Institute.