Anyone who takes US defense money for research must now say so in public

The US Department of Defense wants to change its rules for contractors. Companies and universities that get defense money for research will have to disclose that funding in any public documents they publish.

For years, it has been hard to track how much defense money flows into academic and private research that eventually becomes public. This rule means that anyone publishing research that received defense funding will have to put a clear statement on it. This makes it easier to see who is funding what, and where defense priorities are shaping public research.