As required by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 the SECURE Center will be providing  information, tools, and services to institutions of higher education (IHEs), non-profit research institutions, and small and medium-sized businesses.

The SECURE Center began its work by analyzing several community-based information resources. These included responses to the NSF Dear Colleague Letter that provided feedback, ideas, and proposed recommendations from the research community; a Pilot Co-creation Workshop held at Rice University in the fall of 2024; and a series of interviews and surveys with a wide variety of research organizations and roles within these organizations. This analysis led to the development of a Challenge Backlog and a survey given to Research Security Officers from around the country that prioritized this Backlog into Challenge Areas. Below is where we house some initial resources for our website.