5.	Agency Plans

Implementation of the HPCC Program takes place within each of the
HPCC agencies, where the final decisions are made on the funding,
management, and evaluation of program activities.  This section
organizes HPCC activities by agency [15] to better reflect the
operational structure of the funding.  The level of information does
not reflect individual projects.  Since many grants are at the level
of $100-300 K, a full breakout of each project in a roughly $1 B
program would be extremely difficult to assemble and maintain for
this plan.  Instead, agencies group together projects that are
technically related toward reaching similar goals and objectives.
Each grouping constitutes a "program activity", most of which range
in size from $0.5 M to $40 M.  While this structure does track funds
clearly, it does possess several drawbacks.  Interagency
collaborations are often difficult to recognize and may in fact
appear as duplication of effort since similar efforts will be
repeated within different agency activities.  Also, while the 
HPCC Program broadly describes its activities under the heading of
five major components, actual program activities often span multiple
components, thus making some of the actual spending difficult to
categorize.  In fact, since program activities need not follow strict
guidelines of spending within each component, better decisions can be
made at lower levels of the program implementation as to the most
effective use of the funds to meet Program objectives.

Each agency contribution contains three parts:

	o  Brief overview of the agency's perspective on HPCC efforts,

	o  Table summarizing financial data and collaborative ties 
	   for its program activities, and

	o  One-page form for each program activity that describes it.

The individual program activity form contains some fields that
require explanation.  The "Budget Account Code" field is an internal
label used by some agencies to track HPCC funding.  The budget fields
provide actual spending, estimated spending (based on Congressional
action), and Presidential requests (Pres.) for various fiscal years.
The numbers below the HPCC component labels estimate the breakdown of
the FY 1995 request into the HPCC components.  These numbers are
estimates, in that many activities span a variety of elements and
categorization of efforts includes subjective judgment.  The "Agency
Ties" section of the form permits two labels.  A "Partner" label
indicates that the corresponding agency is a funding and/or research
partner in this activity.  Note that two different agencies may view
partnering differently (e.g., developing a scalable system in ARPA
would be HPCS, but its use for Grand Challenges could be inside ASTA
in other agencies).  A "User" label indicates that the corresponding 
agency needs the results of this program activity for another
activity.  The large field in the center of the form gives an
overview description of each activity.  The remaining fields provide
highlights of major accomplishments and milestones planned for future
years.  While these entries highlight significant objectives and
results, they should not be viewed as complete descriptions of any
activity.

The table at the beginning of each agency's section of the report
summarizes the financial data and collaborative ties described
above.  Again here it is important to recognize that component
numbers should be considered as estimates and include subjective
judgment.  The "Partner/User Agencies" field summarizes the Agency
Ties material in each activity; however, due to space limitations,
not all agencies may be listed in this field for a given activity.