AAU and APLU submitted a joint letter urging the House and Senate Armed Service Committees to enact policies that support and protect the government-university partnership and to reject measures that undermine the United States’s ability to out-innovate our competitors in the FY24 National Defense Authorization Act measures S.2226 and H.R.2670. The letter especially highlighted several measures in the bills that create unnecessary or counterproductive research security requirements that would harm, as opposed to help, the advancement of American science in support of U.S. national security interests.