Conference: RRSP: Responsible Collaboration through Appropriate Research Security

本次研讨会将邀请国内和国际科学与工程专家、情报专业人员和社会科学家参与讨论，这将有助于塑造研究安全的新兴研究领域。讨论将确定障碍并提出方法来回答有关外国政府对美国研究的威胁的性质、原因和普遍性的问题。保护国家的研究成果是美国国家科学基金会使命的一部分，对国防至关重要。NSF一贯强调平衡研究安全与科学与工程领域国际合作价值的重要性。本次研讨会的成果将加强实现这种平衡的努力，并为今后的研究安全提供信息。研讨会将包括研讨会前的虚拟活动和为期2.5天的面对面会议。讲习班的具体目标是：(1)汇集来自不同学科的各种公共和私人组织的各种国内和国际专家；(2)确定和讨论进一步发展该领域的当前主题、主要问题和挑战；(3)确定未来的方向，并为未来的研究询问制定愿景和路线图；(4)分析和整理回应、报告；以及将由莱斯大学贝克公共政策研究所出版的研讨会报告中的讨论，供整个研究界使用。该研讨会将制定一个创新和变革性研究领域的路线图，将研究安全与公共政策、流行病学、数学、物理、计算机科学、工程和社会科学相结合，最终支持一个尽可能开放和尽可能安全的研究环境。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop will engage national and international science and engineering experts, intelligence professionals, and social scientists in discussions that will help shape the emerging field of research on research security. The discussions will identify barriers and suggest approaches to answering questions about the nature, causes, and pervasiveness of foreign government threats to U.S. research. Safeguarding the nation’s research is part of the mission of the U.S. National Science Foundation and is essential to national defense. NSF consistently emphasizes the importance of balancing research security with the value of international collaboration in science and engineering. This workshop’s findings will enhance efforts to achieve such balance and inform future research on research security.The workshop will consist of pre-workshop virtual activities and a 2.5-day in-person meeting. The specific aims of the workshop are: (1) to bring together a diverse array of national and international experts from an equally diverse array of public and private organizations in various disciplines, (2) to identify and discuss current themes, major issues, and challenges in further developing this field, (3) identify future directions and to develop a vision and roadmap for future research inquiries, and (4) to analyze and collate responses, presentations, and discussions in a workshop report to be published by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy for use by the entire research community. The workshop will generate a roadmap of innovative and transformative research areas that integrate research security with public policy, epidemiology, mathematics, physics, computer sciences, engineering, and social sciences, which will ultimately support a research environment that is open as possible and as secure as necessary.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.