House Republicans are sounding the alarm over the federal government’s inability to adequately monitor and track science and technology agreements (STAs) between federal agencies and foreign governments, including adversaries like China, warning that gaps in oversight pose a grave national security risk.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs Chairman William Timmons are asking the Trump administration to conduct comprehensive assessments of the State Department’s current capabilities to monitor the agreements, after finding earlier this year that “Due to the lack of information sharing and ability to monitor STAs, the United States is unable to effectively track China’s intentional exploitation of cooperative agreements and the national security risks this poses.”
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