Sec. 233. Designation of Academic Liaison to protect against emerging threats
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, shall do the following: Designate an official serving within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to work with the academic and research communities to protect academic research funded by the Department of Defense from undue foreign influences and threats. Set forth the responsibilities of the official designated under paragraph (1), including— serving as the liaison of the Department of Defense with the academic and research communities; carrying out initiatives of the Department related to the protection of academic research funded by the Department from undue foreign influences and threats, including the initiatives established under section 1286 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 ( 10 U.S.C. 2358 note); not less frequently than once a year, conducting outreach and education activities for the academic and research community about undue foreign influences and threats to academic research that is funded by the Department; coordinating and aligning the policies relating to academic research security of— the elements of the Department specified in section 111(b) of title 10, United States Code; the intelligence community;
Federal science agencies; the Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Federal regulatory agencies; and working with the intelligence community to the maximum extent practicable to share with the academic and research communities, at least annually, unclassified information, including counterintelligence information, on threats from undue foreign influences. Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing the official designated under subsection (a)(1) to classify academic research in a manner that is inconsistent with the policies of the Department of Defense or the National Security Decision Directive Numbered 189 of September 21, 1985, titled National Policy on the Transfer of Scientific, Technical and Engineering Information , or any successor directive.
In this section: The term Federal regulatory agencies means the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Archives and Records Administration. The term Federal science agencies means each agency (as such term is defined in section 551 of title 5, United States Code) that obligated or expended not less than $100,000,000 in the previous fiscal year for research and development. the term intelligence community has the meaning given such term in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 ).