Summary
U.S. policymakers are making headway on the thorny question of how to deal with foreign threats to U.S. research. This week, Congress created two panels to wrestle with the topic, and last week an influential outside panel recommended steps that the National Science Foundation should take. But there is still no consensus on the core issue of whether protecting national security and U.S. innovation requires new restrictions on basic research beyond a 1985 presidential directive that makes fundamental research “unrestricted … to the maximum extent possible.”
