FEDERAL CYBERSECURITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC PLAN 2023

This 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan supersedes the 2019 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan. The Plan aims to coordinate and guide federally funded R&D in cybersecurity, including development of consensus-based standards and best practices.

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NITRD and NAIIO SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT’S FY2024 BUDGET

This document is a supplement to the President’s FY 2024 Budget Request to Congress. Following Congressional mandate, the Supplement incorporates budgetary and programmatic information for member agencies of the NITRD Program and for the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative.

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FY2024 FEDERAL CYBERSECURITY R&D STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP

This document provides FY 2024 implementation details for the 2019 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan. It lists key Federal R&D programs that directly contribute to addressing the cybersecurity challenges outlined in the 2019 Plan. This document accompanies the NITRD-NAIIO Supplement to the President’s FY 2024 Budget Request.</

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NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC PLAN 2023 UPDATE

This document includes relevant text from the 2016 and 2019 national AI R&D strategic plans, along with updates prepared in 2023 based on Administration and interagency evaluation of the National AI R&D Strategic Plan: 2019 Update as well as community responses to a Request for Information on updating the Plan. The 2019 strategies were broadly determined to be valid going forward. The 2023 update adds a new Strategy 9, which establishes a principled and coordinated approach to international collaboration in AI research.

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FEDERAL AGENCIES’ STEM INTERNSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

This STEM Portal provides programs targeted to all levels of experience so there is something for everyone interested in technology careers and advanced training. It gives in one location a searchable database of opportunities at Federal agencies for internships, scholarships, and other training programs.

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INNOVATION THROUGH NITRD COORDINATION

NITRD coordinates Federal R&D to identify, develop, and transition into use the secure, advanced IT, high-performance computing, networking, and software capabilities needed by the Nation, and to foster public-private partnerships that provide world-leading IT capabilities.

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COORDINATION AREAS

Artificial Intelligence
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
BIG DATA
BIG DATA
COMPUTING-ENABLED NETWORKED PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
COMPUTING-ENABLED NETWORKED PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
CYBER SECURITY AND INFORMATION ASSURANCE
CYBER SECURITY AND INFORMATION ASSURANCE
DIGITAL ASSETS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
DIGITAL ASSETS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
DIGITAL HEALTH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
DIGITAL HEALTH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
HIGH END COMPUTING
HIGH END COMPUTING
INFORMATION INTEGRITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
INFORMATION INTEGRITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
INTELLIGENT ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
INTELLIGENT ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
JOINT ENGINEERING TEAM
JOINT ENGINEERING TEAM
LARGE SCALE NETWORKING
LARGE SCALE NETWORKING
MIDDLEWARE AND GRID INTERAGENCY COORDINATION
MIDDLEWARE AND GRID INTERAGENCY COORDINATION
PRIVACY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
PRIVACY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND QUALITY
SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND QUALITY
VIDEO AND IMAGE ANALYTICS
VIDEO AND IMAGE ANALYTICS
WIRELESS SPECTRUM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
WIRELESS SPECTRUM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

The annual NITRD Program Supplement to the President’s Budget provides a technical summary of NITRD research investments and activities planned and coordinated through the NITRD Program in a given Federal budget cycle. Budget information for the entire span of the NITRD Program, mirroring that reported in the annual Supplements, is captured in visual and interactive forms in the NITRD Dashboard.

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Coordination Areas

NITRD Program’s member agencies coordinate their NITRD research activities and plans by Program Component Areas (PCAs). For each PCA, agency representatives meet in an Interagency Working Group to exchange information and collaborate on research plans and activities such as testbeds, workshops, and cooperative solicitations.

Investments

The budget reporting and technical program summaries are organized by NITRD Program Component Areas (PCAs). The Supplement provides NITRD members’ budget reporting for the most recently completed budget cycle, the current budget cycle, and the budget requests for the next fiscal year. Budget information for the entire span of the NITRD Program, mirroring that reported in the annual Supplements, is captured in visual and interactive forms in the NITRD Dashboard.

R&D Resources

R&D RESOURCES: Dashboard, Libraries and Resource Guides, Federal programs, interagency collaboration opportunities, and other activities that support research and development, facilitate collaboration and coordination between member agencies, academia, industry, and other government entities.

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EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 26-27, 2023

SETTING THE STANDARD: INTRODUCING THE CHIPS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS SUMMIT

The CHIPS Research and Development Office’s Standards Summit will be held as an in-person and virtual event on September 26 and 27, 2023, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time. This event will bring together CHIPS for America leaders, standards setting organizations, and industry alliances, domestic and abroad, in the semiconductor domain to identify community priorities for semiconductor and microelectronics standards activities. The summit will be a place to foster collaboration, coordination, and innovation within the semiconductor industry’s standards community. This event will facilitate discussions on standards needs, opportunities for standards innovation, and enabling a diverse standards-capable workforce…

Co-hosted by the CHIPS Research and Development Office, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO), the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), IPC International, the Joint Development Foundation (JDF), the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD), the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO), SEMI North America, and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
JUNE 20-21, 2023

U.S. LEADERSHIP IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING & AI ENGINEERING WORKSHOP

The economy, the nation’s infrastructure, education, and healthcare all depend on software. This workshop will explore the fundamental research needed to support progress across these critical domains. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Software Productivity, Sustainability, and Quality (SPSQ) Interagency Working Group are partnering on this workshop, to inform a community strategy for building and maintaining U.S. leadership in software engineering and AI engineering, and positively impact progress in multiple application domains…

Software Productivity, Sustainability, and Quality (SPSQ) Interagency Working Group

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PRESS RELEASES


NOAA satellites helped save 350 lives in 2023

(January 25, 2024)
NOAA’s satellites were behind the rescue of 350 people from harrowing, life-threatening ordeals in the U.S. and its surrounding waters in 2023. NOAA’s polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites are part of the global Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking system, or COSPAS-SARSAT, which uses a network of U.S. and international spacecraft to detect and locate distress signals sent from 406MHz emergency beacons onboard aircraft, boats and handheld Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) anywhere in the world. When a NOAA satellite pinpoints the location of a distress signal in the U.S., the information is relayed to the SARSAT Mission Control Center at NOAA’s Satellite Operations Facility. From there, the information is quickly sent to Rescue Coordination Centers, operated either by the U.S. Air Force for land rescues, or the U.S. Coast Guard (USGC) for maritime rescues. NOAA also supports rescues globally by relaying distress signal information to international COSPAS-SARSAT partners.


Supercomputers Shine New Light on Ocean Turbulence

(January 25, 2024)
Describing more accurately how heat moves through the ocean could help scientists develop better, more precise computer models of the climate. Scientists at the University of Cambridge and the University of Massachusetts Amherst used the Summit supercomputer at the DOE’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) to run a new model of ocean turbulence. The computer simulated a generic 10-meter cube of ocean water. To analyze changes down to the centimeter, the program simulates the cube of water on a digital grid. With the model, the scientists analyzed how turbulence influences heat moving through seawater. Previously, computers simply weren’t powerful enough to handle the layers upon layers of complexity and capture the motion at the vast range of scales. To handle those limitations, past models collapsed all of the actions happening in different parts of the water into one average measurement. With the even-more-powerful Frontier supercomputer now available at OLCF, the scientists on this project are hoping to further expand their understanding of this complex topic.

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“The government works best when we all work together. This is true at many levels, from Federal agencies seamlessly collaborating, to inclusive environments that ensure everyone has a seat at the table. The NITRD Co-chairs and the NCO are committed to facilitating and helping to enable an ecosystem where agencies can come together and tackle the world’s most challenging networking and information technology research issues, while providing venues to allow all voices to be heard.”

Dr. Craig Schlenoff, NCO Director and Co-chair, NITRD Subcommittee

AGENCIES

AHRQ
ARMY
DARPA
Department of State
DHS
DOD
DOE
DOE-SC
DOJ
FDA
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
NASA
NAVY
NIH
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
NIST
NNSA
NOAA
NRO
NSA
NSF
Air Force
USGS
USPTO
Department of Veteran Affairs (VA)