The core issue is whether or not there can be effective academic oversight of classified research.

Because of their classified research, most of Livermore's computers are isolated.

Historically, as a major national science research center, work involved both unclassified and classified (secret) research.

The eight-member majority on the panel had said the university should explore whether effective academic oversight of classified research is possible.

"To clear the area, eliminate all knowledge of the dinosaur, and recover the dinosaur for classified research."

In Israel, she had been the one privy to certain highly sensitive, classified research.

However due to its classified research, the knowledge of such detector is completely classified.

As an example he cited university policy that prohibits contracts with the Defense Department for classified research, because it cannot be published.

At Columbia University he did classified research on the development of the atomic bomb.

The university now says it forbids classified research.