What to Know About the Pentagon’s Crackdown on Universities’ Foreign Research Ties
The Trump Administration ordered 30 universities to audit their foreign research partnerships or risk losing funding. The order, issued Monday by the Defense Department, instructs universities to review their ties to 130 foreign institutions, mainly Chinese, that “engage in activities that increase the likelihood of U.S.
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The Trump Administration ordered 30 universities to audit their foreign research partnerships or risk losing funding. The order, issued Monday by the Defense Department, instructs universities to review their ties to 130 foreign institutions, mainly Chinese, that “engage in activities that increase the likelihood of U.S. government-funded research and development efforts being misappropriated.” Schools that fail to terminate any “problematic” partnerships within two weeks may lose their eligibility for future federal research funding. The order is intended to protect taxpayer-funded research from “unauthorized technology transfer, intellectual property theft and adversarial exploitation,” the Pentagon said in the announcement.
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