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Be aware when asked to share. 

4 Communicate Issues of Concern 

Be diligent in reporting to your facility 

security officer or your Domain Coordinator 

(see below) any contact information or 

circumstances that could pose a threat to 

your company’s research and technology. 

This could include classified national security 

information, sensitive information, trade 

secrets, or intellectual property. 

Here are examples of contacts that should be 

reported immediately: 

• Requests by anyone, regardless of 

nationality, for unauthorized access to 

classified information, proprietary data, 

or other controlled 

information.
	

• Contact with an individual, 

regardless of nationality, 

under circumstances that 

suggest your personnel 

may be the target of an 

attempted exploitation 

by foreign intelligence 

collectors or international 

terrorist organizations. 

• Contact with anyone 

receiving information 

of planned, attempted, 

actual, or suspected 

international terrorism, 

Your Domain Coordinator is: 

Phone Number: 

By working together, government agencies, private industry, government contractors, 

and academia can protect the U.S. economy and critical technology, while, at the same 

time, protecting our national security. Please join us in keeping the U.S. domain safe and 

secure; we’re looking forward to your partnership. 

espionage, sabotage, subversion, or 

other intelligence activities against the 

Department of Defense or other U.S. 

facilities, U.S. organizations, or U.S. citizens. 

• Actual or attempted unauthorized access 

into U.S. automated information systems 

and/or unauthorized transmissions 

of classified or controlled unclassified 

information over online computer services 

and telephones. 

• Requests from people who appear to be 

exploiting the business relationship to the 

detriment of you or your firm. 

• Requests for export-controlled technologies, 

components, or information. 

For further information on 

items of concern, please 

request access to the 

Research and Technology 

Protection Infragard Special 

Interest Group at 

www.infragard.net. 

How to Report: 

• Report contacts, such as 

those listed above, to your 

local facility security officer. 

• If you do not have a 

facility security officer, 

contact your local Domain 

Coordinator. 

Partnering to 

Protect Tomorrow’s

Technology 

Today 

Globalization has 

brought opportunities— 

but also risk. 

Is your technology and 

information safe? 

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In today’s global marketplace, more spies—not just traditional adversaries but also allies, hackers, and terrorists—

are trying to steal more of our secrets from more places than ever before. 

What Do They Want? 

They want our country’s most sensitive 

information—from military plans to national 

security vulnerabilities to our own intelligence 

activities to economic interests. These economic 

interests include our country’s trade secrets— 

from big innovations that give us a leg up in the 

global marketplace to common or seemingly 

harmless technologies that could actually assist 

in developing or improving weapons. 

Other countries know “There are more funds expended academia to safeguard that this information and our nation’s critical technology will help them on R&D by the U.S. Government research and technology. modernize their militaries and industry than any other Current participants in and build their economies. country in the world.” this program include the But what U.S. firms often 

do not realize is how 

companies in other countries also target your 

innovations to increase their market share at 

your expense. 

There are more funds expended on R&D by the 

U.S. Government and industry than any other 

country in the world, making U.S. contractors 

a prime target for collection of both classified 

and commercial/proprietary technology by 

other countries. In fact, the U.S. Intelligence 

Community (USIC) estimates that every year 

billions of U.S. dollars are lost to competitors 

who deliberately target economic intelligence 

in flourishing U.S. industries and technologies. 

Adversaries also cull intelligence out of 

shelved technologies by exploiting open source 

information and the classified or proprietary 

material found in trade secrets. 

What Is Being Done? 

To prevent this unauthorized transfer of 

technology and sensitive information to foreign 

governments, organizations, or businesses, the 

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and our 

U.S. Government partners have collaborated to 

protect key technologies in the U.S. “domain.” 

The FBI’s preventative program in this area has 

been coined the Counterintelligence Domain 

Program. Counterintelligence is the business 

of identifying, detecting, and mitigating threats 

posed by Foreign Intelligence Services (FIS) that 

seek to disadvantage our national security and 

economic objectives. The Counterintelligence 

Domain Program is a national, multi-agency 

initiative focused on sharing information with 

private industry and 

FBI, Defense Security 

Service (DSS), Army Counterintelligence, Naval 

Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), the Air 

Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), 

Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), and the 

Department of Commerce (Project Guardian). 

We cannot do it alone. A partnership with U.S. 

businesses, universities, and research facilities 

is the solution to ensure the United States 

maintains its technological and competitive 

edge. Whether your domain involves inventing, 

developing, manufacturing, testing, or 

maintaining U.S. technology, your partnership 

with us is critical to protecting your economic 

interests—and the backbone of our country’s 

vital technologies and national security. 

How Can You Protect Your Domain?

1 Protect Your Equities 

The first step is to identify your most sensitive 

research, technologies, and information that 

FIS, including foreign competitors, may illegally 

try to acquire. Remember, what they seek 

is not necessarily classified. Unclassified or 

sensitive information is often just as critical as 

classified or proprietary information, especially 

that which is sought to further foreign economic 

interests. 

Then, once your equities have been identified, 

we recommend that you develop, implement, 

and monitor a protection program that 

includes network security. Make sure 

to educate your employees about this 

program and what to do if they suspect 

your organization has become a target 

of an FIS. We suggest fully utilizing the 

Counterintelligence Domain Program services 

(see 3 for more details).

2 Realize You May Be a Target 

Next, realize when you or your firm may be a 

target of a foreign country’s efforts to obtain 

technology outside of authorized channels. One 

authorized way for a foreign country to obtain 

restricted U.S. technology is through an export 

license. However, it is much easier to simply ask 

for information. 

If you experience the following solicitations, 

be aware that your company’s technology and 

information are potentially at risk: 

• Suspicious requests for information, such as 

e-mails, phone calls, or personal requests for 

technology, information, manuals, or parts. 

• Extravagant gifts or compliments; this 

technique is known as quid pro quo— 

creating a friendship to elicit information. 

• Invitations to submit papers, attend 

conferences, or speak at symposia; in advance 

of the event, ensure that you determine what 

you are authorized to share. 

• Visitors to a facility asking probing or intrusive 

questions or found in areas outside the scope 

of the visit’s purpose; for example, a visitor 

wandering off from a group who is later found 

in a restricted area of the building. 

Ultimately, be aware when asked to share.

3 Utilize the Counterintelligence 

Domain Program Services
 

To succeed, the Counterintelligence Domain 

Program needs you as a partner, and the 

program offers several services to assist you in 

security, 

“Unclassified information is education, 

training, often just as critical as classified and 

information.” awareness. 

Contact 

your Domain Coordinator to request the 

following services: 

• If you are traveling outside of the United 

States, you can receive a travel briefing prior 

to your departure to learn about a country’s 

criminal and intelligence threats. 

• You can be provided with technology- and 

program-specific threat information. 

• You can take the Counterintelligence 

Vulnerability Assessment (CIVA). This selfadministered assessment survey, designed 

specifically to assist industry in building a 

proactive protection capacity, will help focus 

on areas and issues where your proprietary 

equities and interests may be most at risk. 

In addition, you can visit the Research and 

Technology Protection Infragard Website, the 

USIC’s common communications portal for 

counterintelligence information in this arena. 

This is a secure website that provides actionable 

and relevant information to private industry, 

cleared defense contractors, and academia on 

how to protect your research and technology. 

Please visit www.infragard.net for a membership 

application. 

Think you are or have been a target? 

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