http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/rpac_ucletters_ostp/rss Recent eScholarship items from U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Thu, 3 Sep 2026 03:52:42 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6s53z1g1 This comment letter responds to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s draft characteristics for repositories used to manage and share data resulting from federally funded research. UC supports efforts to improve long-term stewardship and public access to research data while recommending greater consistency in data policies across federal agencies, adequate federal support for data curation and preservation costs, and clearer standards for repository functionality, security, and protection of human subjects data. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6s53z1g1 Tue, 1 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 UC Office of President https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6755426q This comment letter responds to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s request for information on strengthening the American research environment. UC recommends greater coordination and consistency across federal agencies in policies addressing research rigor and integrity, administrative burden, research security and foreign influence, and safe and inclusive research environments, while emphasizing the importance of preserving open international scientific collaboration. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6755426q Tue, 1 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 UC Office of President https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d78g9kf This comment letter responds to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s request for information on public access to peer-reviewed publications, data, and code resulting from federally funded research. UC strongly recommends a zero-day embargo for federally funded peer-reviewed manuscripts, standardized data-sharing requirements across federal agencies, and continued federal support for open-access publishing and long-term research data management costs. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d78g9kf Tue, 1 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 UC Office of President https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dt1t3xd This comment letter responds to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) RFI on the proposed Research Security Program Standard Requirements, published March 7, 2023. UC supports stronger research security standards but said implementation is not feasible without federal funding, clearer scope, and more time, especially for institutions managing broad federally funded research portfolios. UC recommends limiting requirements to risk-based federally funded science and engineering R&D, funding compliance costs, extending implementation to at least two years, narrowing travel and training obligations, clarifying cybersecurity expectations, and simplifying export-control and covered-individual definitions. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dt1t3xd Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 UC Office of the President https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49w3t150 This comment letter responds to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)'s RFI on proposed changes to Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO) policies. UC supports updating DURC and P3CO oversight but warns that a broad risk-based framework could overburden institutions, dilute attention from the highest-risk research, and slow important biomedical, surveillance, vaccine, and in silico work. UC recommends maintaining a clear list-based approach, combining related biosafety programs where efficient, giving federal agencies a larger role in risk assessment, preserving rapid-response pathways, and providing detailed guidance, training, examples, decision trees, and agency contacts for institutions. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49w3t150 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 UC Office of the President https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24b9t00t This comment letter responds to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)'s Request for Information on Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise. The University of California (UC) strongly supports policies that strengthen U.S. research competitiveness and recommends stable and predictable federal research funding, preservation of the Bayh-Dole Act, strong intellectual property protections, expanded technology transfer and commercialization programs, streamlined research administration, and sustained investments in scientific talent, infrastructure, and regional innovation ecosystems to accelerate the translation of research into societal and economic benefits. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24b9t00t Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 UC Office of President