Feb. 25, 2025 - The Texas A&M University System's Research and Innovation Security and Competitiveness (RISC) Institute welcomed over 600 leaders from federal agencies, 150+ universities and 20+ countries for the ninth annual Academic Security and Counter Exploitation (ASCE) Conference, held at Texas A&M University.
Attending the conference and leading several ASCE activities, were the leadership team of NSF SECURE Analytics, the data collection, analysis and reporting hub for the NSF SECURE (Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S. Research Ecosystem) Program, an initiative funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 to train and enhance the research community’s ability to identify and analyze patterns of foreign interference in research; share information on research security risks; and elevate risk assessment, prevention, and mitigation practices.
At the opening of the conference, Dr. Kevin Gamache (PI, Texas A&M) and Dr. Glenn Tiffert (Co-PI, Hoover Institution at Stanford University) provided a keynote overview of NSF SECURE Analytics, and how the team will provide the research security community with data-driven insights, enhanced risk-informed due-diligence tools that will help safeguard the integrity of the research enterprise.
The first day concluded with Dr. Gamache and Dr. Tiffert convening two afternoon breakout sessions offered to selected Research Security Officers (RSOs) to preview the NSF SECURE Analytics due diligence tool, Argus, designed to enhance institutional risk-informed decisions.
On the final day of the conference, Stanford University Professor Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, an expert in risk analysis in complex systems who provides NSF SECURE Analytics with expertise on risk modeling, shared a keynote address to ASCE attendees.
About the NSF SECURE Program: The program consists of two parts: the NSF SECURE Center, led by the University of Washington, and NSF SECURE Analytics, led by Texas A&M University (Kevin Gamache), in partnership with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (Glenn Tiffert) and Parallax Advanced Research (LJ Eads). The Analytics team is internationally recognized for building robust academic research security programs and pioneering empirical methods for research on research security.
NSF SECURE Analytics collaborates with the Research and Innovation Security & Competitiveness (RISC) Institute at Texas A&M, networks of subject matter consultants, the Council on Government Relations (COGR), and the Academic Security & Counter Exploitation (ASCE) Program and seeks collaboration opportunities with research institutions and potential domestic and international partnerships.
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