Overview

FASTER’s goal is to enhance collaboration and accelerate agencies’ adoption of advanced IT capabilities developed by Government-sponsored IT research. FASTER hosts Expedition and Emerging Technology workshops as well as monthly meetings with invited guest speakers to achieve this goal.

NITRD created FASTER for Federal agency CIOs and/or their advanced technology specialists. FASTER, seeks to accelerate deployment of promising research technologies; share protocol information, standards, and best practices; and coordinate and disseminate technology assessment and testbed results. The Federal CIO Council under the leadership of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) coordinates the use of IT systems. NITRD coordinates federally supported IT research under the leadership of OSTP (with OMB participation). FASTER, supported by the NITRD NCO, communicates with OMB and the Federal CIO Council concerning IT R&D matters that are of general interest to Federal agencies.

FASTER is responding to the Open Government Directive by using the technologies of the Social Data Web (e.g., Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web).

FASTER CoP Co-Chairs

Presentations

The Road to Better Data Collaboration in Geosciences: Retooling IODP’s Data Framework and Services While Preserving the Art of Scientific Analysis

Recent Workshops

January 2010 – Expedition Workshop - Open Government which included presentations on "The X Prize Model for Innovation through Competition¹", "An Example of a Global Open Innovation Model: Quantity and Units of Measurement Ontology Standard Initiative²", and "Open Innovation Enabled by Global Federation of Science and Technical Knowledge³."

October 2010 – Expedition Workshop -Seeing Through the Clouds: Exploring Early Communities and Markets Streamlined by Open Government Principles (see https://wiki.citizen.apps.gov/expedition/index.php/Expedition_Workshop#83)

November 2010 – Emerging Technology - Architecture Information Exchange Tools: Increasing the Rate of Change (see http://www.nitrd.gov/et or clicking on pull down menu NITRD Events and then “Emerging Technology Workshop”)

1 The X Prize Model for Innovation through Competition, Erika B. Wagner PhD, Executive Director, X PRIZE Lab at MIT
2 Quantity and Units of Measurement Ontology Standard Initiative, Steven R. Ray, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, NASA Research Park
3 Open Innovation Enabled by Global Federation of Science and Technical Knowledge, Walter L. Warnick, Director, Dept. of Energy, Office of Science and Technical Information