TEXAS A&M RECEIVES U.S. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AWARD

  

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and National Defense Security Service Director Daniel E. Payne were in College Station to honor Texas A&M with the Defense Security Service Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence.

Payne said the A&M System ranked as just one of two entities in the nation to be selected for the award from among 13,000 corporate and academic institutions.

The award was presented by Cornyn and Payne to A&M System Chancellor John Sharp at the Bush Presidential Library on the A&M campus.

The honor was established in 2010 to recognize the efforts of institutions to prevent the theft of U.S. defense and national security technology by foreign agents.

Cornyn, who serves as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he believes the A&M System's work in the intelligence arena is "public service at its finest."