Universities understand the importance of protecting potentially sensitive research for various safety and privacy reasons, and from parties that might use such research against our national interests. In some instances, there are other research inputs and products that may require additional security protections. AAU recommends that security ‘classification’ should be the primary mechanism for restricting access to research results when necessary.
AAU responds to the Department of Justice's NPRM regarding preventing access to U.S. sensitive personal data and government-related data by countries of concern or covered persons. AAU requests clarification on whether this applies to non-commercial basic research and agrees with COGR that various categories of ‘omic data encompass a wide set of measurements related to human physiological, pathological, or genetic measurements that are used to help understand basic mechanisms or functions of human health states and that do not contain identifiable information.
Report stating that the Department of Defense (DOD) will not restrict disclosure of DOD-funded basic and applied research results unless the research is classified for national security reasons or otherwise restricted by statute, regulation, or executive order.