Protecting the Research Environment

Protection of personnel, facilities, innovative ideas and housed data and information

It's a fact—not everyone likes the United States. A recently published report indicated that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special economic espionage unit (created in 2010) had over 2,000 active domestic cases related to counterintelligence operations from one major foreign adversary with an additional case being opened every ten minutes. The economic impact on the U.S. economy through the loss (counterfeit, pirated, or theft) of intellectual property is a main concern to policymakers in the U.S. Government and is estimated to be between $225-600 billion dollars annually with a single foreign state responsible for the bulk of this figure (71-87%).

2,000 active FBI special economic espionage unit domestic cases related to counterintelligence operations from one major foreign adversary

$225-$600 billionEstimated annual loss of intellectual property