Cyber Physical Systems (CPS SSG)
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Overview
Cyber-physical systems—smart systems that have cyber technologies, both hardware and software, deeply embedded in and interacting with physical components, sensing and changing the state of the real world—represent a core opportunity area and source of competitive advantage for the U.S. innovation economy in the 21st century. (Winning the Future with Science and Technology for 21st Century Smart Systems, CPS OSTP Response, 4-7-2011)
The term cyber-physical systems (CPS) refers to a generation of systems with integrated computational and physical capabilities that can interact with humans through many new modalities. The ability to interact with, and expand the capabilities of, the physical world through computation, communication, and control is a key enabler for future technology developments. Opportunities and research challenges include the design and development of next-generation airplanes and space vehicles, hybrid gas-electric vehicles, fully autonomous urban driving, and prostheses that allow brain signals to control physical objects. (From Cyber Physical Systems - IoCT-Part3-02)
The CPS SSG is to coordinate programs, budgets, and policy recommendations for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) research and development (R&D). This includes identifying and integrating requirements, conducting joint program planning, and developing joint strategies for the CPS R&D programs conducted by agency members of the NITRD Subcommittee. CPS includes fundamental research, applied R&D, technology development and engineering, demonstrations, testing and evaluation, technology transfer, and education and training; and "agencies" refers to Federal departments, agencies, directorates, foundations, institutes, and other organizational entities.
Scope of Activities
Vision Statement
Scope of activities
The scope of activities for the CPS SSG includes:
- Coordinate policies among NITRD government agencies
- Close communication and liaison among the CPS agencies, academia, and industry to address CPS R&D needs
- Facilitating interagency CPS R&D program planning, including:
- Providing a forum for agencies to exchange program-level information about agency activities in CPS R&D
- Recognizing agency priorities and identifying interagency priorities in CPS R&D, identifying any gaps among these areas, and promoting interagency coordination to address these gaps
- Identifying opportunities for collaboration, coordination, and leveraging among agencies in specific areas in CPS R&D
- Developing, maintaining, and periodically updating an interagency roadmap for CPS
- Developing recommendations for Federal CPS R&D policy, such as recommendations regarding the establishment of Federal CPS R&D priorities and the need for specific interagency activities to address those priorities
- Preparing the CPS SSG component of the annual Supplement to the President's Budget for the NITRD Program, which also serves as an annual report summarizing the activities of the CPS SSG
- Coordinating with other NITRD bodies such as PCAs, IWGs and CGs, on issues of mutual interest
Co-Chairs
CPS SSG News/Events
- February 4, 2013
- SEI Blog: Looking Ahead: The SEI Technical Strategic Plan
- By Bill Scherlis
- SEI Principal Researcher and Director, Institute for Software Research
"The Department of Defense (DoD) has become deeply reliant on software. As a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), the SEI is chartered to work with the DoD to meet the challenges of designing, producing, assuring, and evolving software-reliant systems in an affordable and dependable manner. This blog post is the second in a multi-part series that describes key elements of our forthcoming Strategic Research Plan that address these challenges through research, acquisition support, and collaboration with the DoD, other federal agencies, industry, and academia. The first post in this series focused on Architecture-Led Incremental Iterative Development. This part focuses on the remaining three elements of our strategic plan: (1) designed-in security and quality (evidence-based software assurance), (2) a set of DoD critical component capabilities relating to cyber-physical systems (CPS), autonomous systems, and big data analytics, and (3) cybersecurity tradecraft and analytics."
http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/looking-ahead-the-sei-technical-strategic-plan-part-2
- January 2, 2013
- Dear Colleague Letter: NSF-FHWA Coordination on Cyber Physical Systems for Highway Transportation - The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) have a shared interest in advancing basic and applied research in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), which are systems in which physical processes are tightly intertwined with networked computing. For transportation, CPS will provide the foundation necessary for a safe, efficient highway transportation system connecting vehicles, infrastructure, people, and goods in a vibrant, competitive economy. FHWA plans to post a broad agency announcement in early January 2013. NSF has posted the DCL to http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13034/nsf13034.jsp.
