Sandra Troian, a professor at Caltech, alleged the school retaliated against her for telling the FBI about suspected federal export law violations at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She alleged 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 alleged 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 had sent restricted data to Israel and posted it on a public website without permission. The lawsuit was settled in late 2017.