Yesterday, the US National Science Foundation issued this interesting announcement about a new framework for assessing research proposals for potential national security risks. Note that this involves a limited pilot in areas related to quantum science and technologies, an assessment and fine-tuning, and then a scale up to a broader range of areas. See

NSF enhances research security with new TRUST proposal assessment process | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced a new risk mitigation process, the Trusted Research Using Safeguards and Transparency (TRUST) framework, which will guide the agency in assessing…

My thanks to Gary Price for catching this one. Perhaps someday I'll figure out how he stays on top of so many things!

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI