Policies, guidance, and recommendations for identifying and preventing undue foreign interference in research.
A May 2020 joint release from AAU and APLU providing effective practices that can be utilized by universities to implement research security efforts and minimize foreign influence.
A May 2021 joint release from AAU and APLU highlighting key principles that can be adapted by both universities and the federal government to protect the research enterprise from foreign influence.
Issued by the NCSC in December 2021, this document includes links to risk mitigation materials that can be utilized to improve: physical security, personnel security, operations security, cybersecurity, defensive counterintelligence, insider threat mitigation, and supply chain risk management.
A summary document from AAU, updated in January 2024, that references key federal documentation that has been developed to address foreign influence in research.
A directive issued January 8, 2026, by Emil Michael, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, to strengthen research security measures for all DoD-funded fundamental research and counter foreign influence, intellectual property theft, and exploitation. Key actions include prohibiting DoD funding to entities linked to Chinese military companies or with histories of IP theft, implementing annual compliance checks, and establishing a centralized Fundamental Research Risk Review Repository by FY 2026, along with automated vetting tools, damage assessments, and a common research grant database.
The ODNI research security portal providing resources, threat briefings, and guidance for the academic research community on protecting research from foreign intelligence threats.
NIH's research security portal providing access to notices, policies, decision matrices, and resources related to identifying and addressing foreign interference in NIH-funded research.
An ASPI report (released 2019) accompanying the China Defense Universities Tracker that explores the military and security links of China's universities. It provides analysis underpinning the searchable database that rates the risk of collaboration with Chinese research entities, helping institutions assess foreign collaboration risk.
