About NSF SECURE Analytics
NSF SECURE Analytics provides the research community with data-driven insights, analytical products, and an enhanced risk-informed due-diligence platform that will help safeguard the security of the research enterprise.
We serve institutions of higher education, other non-profit research performing organizations, and small and medium-sized businesses.
NSF SECURE Analytics is led by Texas A&M University in partnership with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Mission and Vision
The mission of NSF SECURE Analytics is to identify and analyze patterns of foreign interference in research, share information on research security risks, and enhance the community’s understanding of whom they are collaborating with; whom their collaborators are collaborating with; who is funding those collaborations; whether a foreign government nexus exists; the research security risks those collaborations entails; and how those risks can be mitigated.
Proactive Risk Mitigation
Move beyond reactive measures to anticipate and mitigate potential threats.
Data-Driven Decision Making
Provide evidence-based insights to support informed decisions about research security.
Enhanced Collaboration
Foster cooperation between government agencies and the research community.
Protection of Research Integrity
Protect and safeguard the integrity of U.S. research and intellectual property.
Products and Services
NSF SECURE Analytics delivers tools and resources to stakeholders across the research community to enhance their ability to make risk-based decisions.
Large datasets
Large qualitative and quantitative datasets on publications, patents, investments, government policies, and other relevant information.
AI-driven tools
AI-driven tools that transform these datasets into actionable insights for the research community.
Argus platform
The flagship data collection, analysis and reporting platform for NSF SECURE Analytics to empower the research community to mitigate foreign interference in research. See more here.
Stakeholder training
Stakeholder training on risk identification, assessment, and mitigation.
Reports and advisories
Empirical reports and advisories on research security risks. See more here.
People
The NSF SECURE Analytics team is internationally recognized for building robust academic research security programs and pioneering empirical methods for research on research security.
Kevin Gamache
director
texas A&M University
Glenn Tiffert
DEPUTY director
Hoover institution
Contact us
We appreciate your interest in the NSF SECURE Analytics. If you are interested in getting involved, have a data analytics tool or expertise in a key area as it relates to research security, please reach out to us!