The Defense Department's research and development arm is poised to receive billions of dollars in funding originally intended for other agencies developing tech to counter China without asking for it.
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“They have no dedicated compliance officers, they depend on the [inspector general] to find grant fraud,” he said at a committee meeting. “It doesn’t prevent researchers it funds from participating in talent recruitment plans like the Thousand Talents Plan. More concerning, the head of NSF’s office of international science and engineering testified before a subcommittee that she had only recently heard about the Thousand Talents Plan despite it being around for two decades.”
The Thousand Talents Plan is a Chinese government program. Talent recruitment programs targeting American innovation are one tool that foreign adversaries like China use to influence U.S. government-funded researchers.