Sec. 2. Working group on understanding scale and scope of problematic research collaboration between China and recipients of Federal research funding
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Pursuant to section 904(e)(7)(B) of the Counterintelligence Enhancement Act of 2002 ( 50 U.S.C. 3383(e)(7)(B) ), the Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center shall convene a working group of officials and individuals in the intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 )), Federal grant-making agencies, and outside experts to better understand the scale and scope of problematic research collaboration between the People's Republic of China and recipients of funds from the Federal Government. The working group convened pursuant to subsection
(a)shall— expand the scope of previous counterintelligence efforts relating to research security threats, which focused primarily on foreign talent recruitment programs; conduct open-source research for counterintelligence efforts on published research, bibliometric data, and other publicly available data; identify the problematic research collaborations described in subsection
(a)that pose the highest potential risk to the national security of the United States from entities within the defense industrial base of China and other entities the working group determines present a high-risk to the Federal Government; and publish, on a semiannual basis, a database in accordance with subsection (c). The working group convened pursuant to subsection
(a)shall establish an unclassified database to serve as a comprehensive resource for the Department of Defense, the intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 )), and other Federal grant-making agencies for conducting due diligence and risk review determinations for fundamental, controlled, or classified research grant award approvals, denials, or revocations. The database established pursuant to subparagraph
(A)shall be known as the Threats to Research, Universities, Science, and Technology database or the TRUST database (referred to in this subsection as the Database ). The Database shall include— a catalog of entities, with supporting open-source documentation, that support the defense research, development, and industrial bases of China, including— universities and their subdivisions; state and national defense key laboratories; provincial-level key laboratories; research institutes subordinate to defense state-owned enterprises; and other business enterprises involved in military-civil fusion programs that are partially or majority owned by universities or the Chinese Academy of Sciences; mapping of the People's Republic of China’s State Administration for Science and Technology Industry for National Defense, including a focus on developing defense-related academic disciplines, key laboratories, and research groups at the universities; identifying entities of the People's Republic of China engaging in critical technology research, including institutions, centers of excellence, laboratories, or personnel that conduct research in disciplines or subdisciplines of critical importance to the national and economic security of the United States; mapping research institution links to the defense industry of the People's Republic of China, including subsidiaries and research institutes subordinate to major People's Republic of China state-owned defense enterprises; and identifying other research entities and programs of the People's Republic of China tied to defense, including civilian universities and government research organizations that engage in defense research projects through formal partnerships or research collaboration with People's Republic of China defense entities, state-owned enterprises, or receipt of People's Republic of China defense program funding. The working group convened pursuant to subsection
(a)shall submit an annual report to Congress containing a description of the progress and findings of the database.
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