Sandra Troian, a professor at Caltech, alleges the school retaliated against her for telling the FBI about suspected federal export law violations at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech. She alleges Caltech conducted a campaign of retaliation that included falsely accusing her of research misconduct and other wrongdoing, preventing her from participating in campus events, and denying her more than $1 million in grant funds. Troian alleges the retaliation began in 2012 when she notified the FBI of concerns that a postdoctoral researcher working on a space propulsion system funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) had sent restricted data to Israel and posted it on a public website without permission.