Today I attended an excellent report release webinar at the US National Academies for their report "Protecting US Technological Advantage", which takes a very high level policy look at many of the issues that have surfaced in recent years about research security, research openness (particularly for basic research) and related matters. There's a lot of very interesting material in the report (I have not read the entire thing yet), including discussions of what it really means to operate in an open research environment. In some sense this could be viewed as a high level policy discussion complementing things like the recent OSTP directive on scholarly communication concerning federally funded research.

The webinar was recorded and I believe the recording will be available in the near future. The report is available now for free download. Here is a link to a more detailed description of the committee and its work, including a link to download the report:

Protecting Critical Technologies for National Security in an Era of Openness and Competition

An ad hoc committee of NASEM reviewed the protection of technologies that have strategic importance for national security in an era of openness and competition, considering policies and practices related to the production and commercialization of research in critical domains. Based on its analysis, the committee offered in its report recommendations for changes to technology protection policies and practices that reflect the current realities of how technologies are developed and incorporated in...

Here's a direct link to the report at the National Academies Press

Protecting U.S. Technological Advantage

U.S. leadership in technology innovation is central to our nation's interests, including its security, economic prosperity, and quality of life. Our nation has created a science and technology ecosystem that fosters innovation, risk taking, and the discovery of new ideas that lead to new technologies through robust collaborations across and within academia, industry, and government, and our research and development enterprise has attracted the best and brightest scientists, engineers, and entrep...

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI