Harvard, NYU among 30 universities hit with Pentagon foreign-tie audit deadline

The Pentagon on Monday ordered 30 American universities to conduct audits of their financial and research ties to foreign entities or risk losing federal research funding.

The institutions must review the identified foreign collaborations and assess any exposure of "sensitive or export-controlled research."

"The Department of War has zero tolerance for academic partnerships that compromise our national security," said Emil Michael, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering.