In July of 2024, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released guidelines for research security programs for covered institutions. These guidelines expand and formalize guidelines for to Federal Research Agencies for research security at certain universities and federally-funded researcher institutions.
This document, titled Guidelines for Research Security Programs at Covered Institutions, covers requirements of research agencies and calls out 4 specific areas of requirements: Cybersecurity, Foreign Travel Security, Research Security Training, and Export Control Training.
To initiate compliance to these requirements, UC has: initiated a process to track foreign travel to Foreign Countries of Concern (defined by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 as Iran, Russia, North Korea, China), Export Control Training (already in place in CITI), compliance to forth-coming Cybersecurity requirements, and exploration into Research Security Training Options.