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DEFENSE RESEARCH: New Policy Tries to Ease Security Restrictions
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
The Department of Defense has issued a new policy directive that's meant to resolve a 7-year dispute between the Pentagon and academic institutions over the rules governing unclassified research.