A whistleblower lawsuit made public Monday alleged Penn State has not adequately protected sensitive government information, potentially calling into question dozens of projects where the university has not complied with its contracts.
Allegations include intentionally falsifying government compliance reports and moving from an approved and secured cloud service to an unapproved commercial version of Microsoft Office 365.
The allegations were brought by Matthew Decker, who served as the chief information officer for Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory as early as 2015. The lawsuit was filed in October.
A Penn State spokesperson did not respond Friday to a question that asked if Decker was still employed by the university. He is not listed in the university’s directory and his LinkedIn indicates he left the university in March.
“Sensitive government research and national security information is at the very least at risk,” Decker’s attorney Darth M. Newman wrote in the 24-page lawsuit.
The university’s Applied Research Laboratory was founded in 1945 at the request of the U.S. Navy and the Defense Department designated Penn State a University Affiliated Research Center. The Navy in 2018 awarded a 10-year contract worth as much as $2.1 billion to the ARL to conduct research and development to improve U.S. national security.
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