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SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT’S FY2019 BUDGET

(August 21, 2018)
PUBLICATIONS / SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET

Information technology (IT) is perhaps the most broadly transformative technology ever invented, with impacts on defense, security, energy, healthcare, and more. Innovation in IT continually enables pivotal new applications that advance U.S. national priorities and Federal agency missions. For 27 years, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program has been the Nation’s primary source of federally funded research and development (R&D) on networking and information technology. The Program maximizes coordination of Federal IT R&D to optimize Federal investments that support agency missions and contribute to the public good.

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NITRD NEWSLETTER – JULY 2018

(July 16, 2018)
NEWS / NEWSLETTER / PUBLICATIONS

“Serving as NITRD NCO Director for the past two years has reinforced my appreciation of the importance of Federal IT R&D in addressing the challenges and pursuing the opportunities of advancing IT. I am also reminded that new challenges and opportunities always lie ahead. One challenge and opportunity is particularly clear as I prepare to return to NASA: the need to purposefully move our innovations across the technology “valley of death” – the gap between positive research results and usable solutions that benefit our agencies and Nation…” – Dr. Bryan Biegel (Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information).…

Wireless Spectrum

WIRELESS SPECTRUM: RADIO RECEIVER SYSTEMS

(July 13, 2018)
RESOURCES / WIRELESS SPECTRUM

On May 5, 2017, the WSRD IWG held a workshop, Radio Receiver Systems: R&D Innovation Needs and Impacts on Technology and Policy. At this workshop, Federal, private, and academic stakeholders discussed their individual views regarding the need for innovation in radio receiver systems.

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“MOVING BUREAUCRACIES TOWARD MODERN CLOUD PRACTICE”

(June 1, 2018)
NEWS

Across the government, different groups are identifying technologies, policies and acquisition strategies that clear away barriers and help agencies begin to realize the full benefits of cloud. Too often, cloud adoption recreates physical datacenters, and doesn’t realize the cloud benefits of experimentation, iteration, rapid release and disposability, while increasing security and compliance through automation. Will and Peter discuss the range of cloud needs across agencies, successful agile cloud migration strategies we’ve applied, how 18F has helped another agency move to biweekly releases (while saving 1.5% of their total budget), how Federalist has saved over $10 million/year in compliance costs alone while helping agencies experiment with cloud hosting, and where they see these efforts moving over the next year.

NITRD NewsLetter - April 2018

NITRD NEWSLETTER – APRIL 2018

(April 16, 2018)
NEWS / NEWSLETTER / PUBLICATIONS

“Artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived – driverless cars, home and mobile assistants, real-time traffic routing, advising systems for everything from stock markets to healthcare, helpdesk chatbots, and more. Rapid AI advancements are enabled by technologies that NITRD agencies helped create, including powerful and pervasive networked computing and sensors, big data, and machine learning (ML) algorithms…” – Dr. Bryan Biegel (Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information).