The White House this week facilitated a cooperative agreement among several key public and private organizations to spur joint information security research projects. The agreement does not provide any funding for the research projects, but instead lays out the terms under which the organizations can work together. Partnerships between government agencies and private industry on security research and development have been legion in the years since 9/11. Many in private industry have said that the information sharing efforts have been a one-way street, with no data coming back from Washington on threats and new technologies.
Source: https://threatpost.com/dhs-nist-financial-services-group-form-security-research-partnership-120910/74754/