Abstract
National security concerns about US research increased under President Donald J. Trump’s administration. Its anti-China stance led to restrictions on international collaborations and even prosecutions of academic researchers, often for failure to report Chinese funding. While the rhetoric has changed somewhat under President Joe Biden, efforts to address research security concerns continue. On Jan. 4, Biden’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released guidelines for how federal funding agencies should seek information from researchers about their international collaborations or non-US funding (see page 15) . The US Congress has also been negotiating national security restrictions for academics . Universities hope that Congress looks at the OSTP’s new guidelines and doesn’t add anything that conflicts with them, which would be “a big challenge,” says Deborah Altenburg, associate vice president for research policy and government affairs at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. Faculty are already confused by research security
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