The Imperial Bureau of Resource Research was a department within the Galactic Empire and functioned while Palpatine was in power.
After Darth Vader and Lieutenant Pandur tasked Obo Rin with creating a Catalog of Intelligent Life in the Galaxy for the Empire, Major Herrit from Imperial Intelligence protested, stating that the numerous expert sentientologists working for the Imperial Bureau of Resource Research were better suited to head up the project. Herrit also believed that the Bureau's specialists would be more capable and exhaustive, as he communicated in his message to Lord Vader.