NSF has awarded $67M to set up a national centre for research security. It aims to be collaborative with the research community, at home and abroad
Mark Haselkorn, University of Washington professor and one of the new US research security centre leaders.
Last week the US announced a $67 million effort to boost security at American research organisations. But it intends to aid security with a difference: working in collaboration with researchers and administrators – and open to cooperation with allied countries.
“We are going to co-design what the community wants and needs to enhance security at its institutions,” says Mark Haselkorn, a University of Washington professor and one of the project leaders. Rather than simply dictating security measures, he says, the new National Science Foundation-supported SECURE Center’s message to researchers will be, “Let’s define the problems, let’s design the solutions, and together we’ll make them happen. That is a…
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