Research Security Training

Section 10634 of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 establishes a government-wide research security training requirement for federally funded research and development awards. Each federal agency must establish a requirement that all covered individuals, as defined by the agency, certify that they have completed research security training within one year prior to application submission, and Stanford must certify that covered individuals employed by Stanford have taken such training.  

Agencies that have implemented the Research Security Training requirement, and their effective dates, are listed below.

Complete by clicking: Stanford Research Security Training (DOR-2000) in STARS The training should take less than an hour.

NOTE: The previously announced Stanford Research Security Training (DOR-1210) in STARS was retired effective 9/12/25.  If you have completed DOR-1210, that training completion remains valid.

Even if you are not submitting a proposal to a federal agency that requires Research Security Training, we encourage all researchers to complete research security training. Other federal agencies will be implementing similar requirements. While the timing of when training must be completed varies by agency, they all share the goal of promoting research security awareness and protecting the integrity of federally funded research.

Viewing Research Security Training Status

Investigators can view the status of their Stanford Research Security Training (DOR-2000) i.e. if they have completed it, and if yes, when from either within STARS or SeRA.  Administrators can view the status of their investigators' Stanford Research Security Training (DOR-2000) i.e. if they have completed it, and if yes, when from within SeRA.

Viewing Your Own Research Security Training Status within STARS

1. Log into Axess
2. Click on STARS
3. Click on the All Learning quick Link

4. Scroll down to Training History and search for Research Security Training

Viewing Research Security Training Status within SeRA

Any SU investigator’s real-time Research Security Training status can be viewed within SeRA on an investigator's My Projects/My Investigator’s page under Research Profile.

Additionally, within SeRA proposal transactions, i.e. SeRA PIFs and PDRFs, where the listed sponsor is a federal Research Security Training information is displayed for the PI and all Other Stanford Investigators on the Project Questions page within the Training region.  

NOTE: Within in-progress/in-development SeRA proposal transactions, i.e. PIFs and PDRFs, investigator RST data on the Project Questions page updates when the current SeRA transaction assignee next accesses/touches the given in-progress SeRA transaction.  That is to say, if a SeRA PDRF is assigned to person A and includes an investigator that has NOT already completed RST, they need to, and the investigator proceeds with completing their RST, the investigator will NOT see the RST data update within the given SeRA PDRF until person A who is the current assignee of the PDRF next accesses/touches the in-progress PDRF.  Moreover, within completed/closed SeRA proposal transactions, RST data does NOT update.   Again, RST completion data displays real-time and is visible to investigators and administrators through the investigator's My Projects/My Investigator’s page under Research Profile. 

***If you are not seeing Research Security Training completion information accurately reflected in STARS and/or SeRA, submit a SERA ticket.***

NASA Covered Individuals

A NASA covered individual is any Principal Investigator (PI) (regardless of level of effort), any CoPI (regardless of level of effort), and only Co-Investigators (Co-I) proposing to spend ten percent or more of their time in any given year on a NASA-funded award. The definition of Covered Individuals is program-specific, and NASA may expand the list of Covered Individuals. Review the Notice of Funding Opportunity carefully.

DoE Covered Individuals 

The DoE Notice of Funding Opportunity and/or terms and conditions of the award will specify the list of designated roles that are considered “Covered Individuals”.  At a minimum, this includes (PI); project director (PD); co-principal investigator (Co-PI); co-project director (Co-PD); project manager; and any individual regardless of title that is functionally performing as a PI, PD, Co-PI, Co-PD, or project manager.

The definition of Covered Individuals is program-specific, and the DOE may expand the list of Covered Individuals. Review the Notice of Funding Opportunity carefully.

Any individual who qualifies as a Covered Individual (a) listed on the proposal at time of submission, or (b) that is added to the project after submission/award should take the training prior to beginning work.

If you have questions about who is considered a “Covered Individual” on your proposal or award, please contact your Contract & Grant Officer in ORA.

Additional Stanford Resources

DoR Research Security - The Stanford Research Security, Export Controls, and Global Research Engagement team within the DoR Research Policy and Integrity Office offers guidance and support around federal policies aimed at protecting U.S. research from improper foreign interference. This includes new requirements to establish research security programs for individual projects and the university.