LIVE WEBINARDate: June 24, 2026Time: 2pm ET / 11am PT

TITLE: Research security and the effort to protect federally funded innovationParticipants can earn 1 CPE credit

As the Pentagon places new emphasis on the security of technical research, universities, government agencies, and other institutions are under greater pressure to protect basic and applied research from foreign exploitation. The challenge goes beyond traditional espionage and IP theft, reaching into grantmaking, international collaboration, disclosure practices, and the policies meant to keep government-funded innovation from flowing to potential adversaries.In this Breaking Defense webinar, we convene a panel of experts to examine how the US research security landscape is evolving, with an emphasis on new DoD policies and their implementation at the funder and grant recipient levels. The webinar will also explore how organizations are taking more risk-based approaches to their due diligence, from reviewing international collaboration footprints to identifying disclosure gaps and improving the use of additional open source and internal agency or research organization data.

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