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<pre>Attention all Users,
<br>Sending this message from Stuart as a reminder. We have had many users and students arrive this week without completing a registration in advance as mentioned below.<br>Please share with your collaborators and future visitors.
Regards,
Lorelei</pre>
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<pre>MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
March 14, 2019
SUBJECT: Jefferson Lab Foreign Visits and Assignments
The fundamental research conducted at Jefferson Lab, as well as other National Labs, benefits from strong international participation and collaboration. Unfortunately, publicly funded research and development, such as that sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy at the National Labs, is a target for exploitation by certain foreign governments and their affiliates. While this has always been an issue for classified technologies, interest has expanded to a number of non-classified technologies critical to scientific leadership or with potential commercial application in an increasingly competitive environment.
In order to protect these technologies and align ourselves with our sponsor, we must recognize and adapt to this changing landscape of foreign engagements and control access to the sought-after technologies in our possession. To do so, we will be enforcing current procedures and instituting some additional process changes related to foreign visits and assignments, which will begin April 1, 2019:
* Non-U.S. citizens will be not be granted site access without attaching a CV to their visit request. Our visitor access documentation will detail CV requirements.
* All visit requests must be submitted not less than seven calendar days prior to the visit start date. Admission with less than a seven day notice is only possible with documentation from their institution that a bona fide emergency prevented their advance registration.
* Non-U.S. citizens must present proof of their current institutional affiliation, such as a badge, ID card or an original letter from their supervisor on institutional letterhead at the time of arrival.
* Non-U.S. citizens will be granted lab access for up to one year, or to the end of their U.S. entry authorization, whichever is shorter. Visitors can request annual extensions if their Jefferson Lab host verifies a continuing need for lab access.
In this context, visitors are broadly defined to include all persons who are not employees of Jefferson Science Associates LLC, including scientific Users and joint and bridge faculty. We anticipate that these procedures will not impact any current visitor’s Jefferson Lab access privileges, as long as they meet the registration lead-time and documentation requirements. These changes will not apply immediately to visitors with current lab access (picture badge) but will take effect as part of their next registration cycle.
Additional measures limiting visitor access to some aspects of advanced technologies under development at our laboratory may be necessary, but these instances should be infrequent and should not impact the nuclear physics experimental program based on CEBAF facilities.
We expect to continue to host the public in General Access Areas of CEBAF Center and the SSC, but any visitor leaving the General Access Area must follow the visitor registration process. JSA employees and Jefferson Lab contractors must be diligent in enforcing the visitor registration and site access policies.
In summary, these changes are necessary so that we can continue to meet our expectations for the management and operation of this federally funded research and development center. Together, we have worked hard to build a strong reputation of scientific and operational excellence. By strengthening and enforcing our visitor access management and record keeping, we can better ensure the protection of federally-funded technologies while carrying out our scientific user program, which is at the heart of Jefferson Lab’s mission.
Sincerely,
Stuart</pre>
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