The issue focused on Russian technology research and development to bring foreign researchers and scientists back to U.S. labs.

In its research report, researchers wrote that technology research at federal agencies was going "more slowly and research across an academic population was less affected."

In another research report, researchers wrote that certain critical technologies were being developed for drug development in labs that had been closed or shut down for technology development or research that had been improved.

In one example, researchers wrote that research at NASA