AHRQ - the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality - focuses on research into state-of-the-art IT for use
in health care applications such as computer-based patient records,
clinical decision support systems, and standards for patient care
data, information access, and telehealth.
DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - is focused
on future-generations computing, communications, and networking as
well as embedded software and control technologies, and human use
of information technologies in national defense applications such
as battlefield awareness.
DOE/NNSA - the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
- was established to develop new means of assessing the performance
of nuclear weapon systems, predict their safety and reliability, and
certify their functionality through high-fidelity computer models
and simulations of weapon systems.
The DOE Office of Science is exploring, developing, and deploying
computational and networking tools that enable researchers in the
scientific disciplines to model, simulate, analyze, and predict complex
physical, chemical, and biological phenomena important to DOE. The
office also provides support for the geographically distributed research
teams and remote users of experimental facilities that are critical
to DOE missions. FY 2002 is the second year of the office's "Scientific
Discovery through Advanced Computing" (SciDAC) initiative, which
is focused on the next generation of scientific simulation and collaboration
tools for the scientific areas that are the focus of DOE research.
EPA - the Environmental Protection Agency - has the IT research goal
of facilitating multidisciplinary ecosystem modeling, risk assessment,
and environmental decision making at the Federal, state, and local
levels, and by other interested parties, through advanced use of computing
and other information technologies.
NASA - the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - is extending
U.S. technological leadership to benefit the U.S. aeronautics, Earth
and space science, and spaceborne research communities.
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NIH - the National Institutes of Health
- is applying the power of computing, both to manage and analyze biomedical
data and to model biological processes, in its goal to develop the
basic knowledge for the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
of human disease.
NIST - the National Institute of Standards and Technology - is working
with industry and with educational and government organizations to
make IT systems more useable, secure, scalable, and interoperable;
apply IT in specialized areas such as manufacturing and biotechnology;
and encourage private-sector companies to accelerate development of
IT innovations.
NOAA - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - is an
early adopter of emerging computing technologies for improved climate
modeling and weather forecasting, and of emerging communications technologies
for disseminating weather forecasts, warnings, and environmental information
to users such as policymakers, emergency managers, and the general
public.
NSA - the National Security Agency - is addressing some of the most
challenging problems in the country in computing, storage, communications,
and information assurance in order to help ensure our national security.
NSF - the National Science Foundation - is the lead NITRD agency,
with interest in developing new fundamental IT knowledge; applications
in the biological, chemical, geophysical, mathematical, physical,
social, and behavioral sciences and engineering; educating world-class
scientists and engineers and a knowledgeable IT workforce; and research
infrastructure.
ODUSD (S&T) - the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
for Science and Technology - manages the University Research Initiative,
which focuses on IT R&D for Department of Defense applications,
research infrastructure, and science and engineering education.
Other Federal agencies participate in networking and information technology
research and development, and coordinate with NITRD activities, using
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