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FYI Deep Dive: Research Security
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Provisions on research security, grant policies, indirect cost rates, and more are packed into the latest version of the NDAA.
Higher ed associations are protesting the policy’s “enormously broad definitions” and disclosure requirements.
The lawsuit is driven by Trump’s effort to bar unions at NASA on the grounds that they hinder the agency’s “national security mission.”
An increasingly complex regulatory environment for federally funded research needs centralized oversight, a National Academies committee argues.
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The Department of Energy has already cut mentions of the ALARA principle amid a larger push by the White House to change radiation regulations.
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