FEDERAL HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK (3/19/2020) PUBLICATIONS, STRATEGY DOCUMENTS - This strategic R&D Framework was developed to improve medical, functional, and public health outcomes through R&D in the use of data and IT for advanced health IT applications and improved detection of existing health concerns and discovery of emerging issues.… ...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CYBERSECURITY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES (3/2/2020) AI, CYBERSECURITY, PUBLICATIONS - On June 4-6, 2019, the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittees on National Information Technology and Networking Research and Development and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence held a workshop to assess the research challenges and opportunities at the intersection of… ...
NOTICE OF OPEN TO THE PUBLIC MEETINGS OF THE NETWORKING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (NITRD) PROGRAM (2/20/2020) FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE, PUBLIC MEETINGS - The NITRD Program holds meetings that are open to the public to attend. The Joint Engineering Team (JET) and Middleware And Grid Interagency Coordination (MAGIC) Team provide an opportunity for the public to engage and participate in information sharing with… ...
NITRD SUPPORTS COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION WEEK (12/13/2019) NEWS - The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program and participating agencies prioritize computer science (CS) education and workforce development (EdW) for all ages and abilities. They champion a diverse, inclusive, well-trained workforce capable of creating, using, and sustaining… ...
FEDERAL CYBERSECURITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC PLAN (2019) (12/10/2019) CYBERSECURITY, PUBLICATIONS, STRATEGY DOCUMENTS - Information technology (IT) provides exceptional benefits to society. However, the more society relies on IT, the greater the potential disruption and destruction that adversaries can create via malicious cyber activities. Advances in cybersecurity are urgently needed to preserve the Internet’s… ...
2016–2019 PROGRESS REPORT: ADVANCING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE R&D (11/20/2019) AI, PUBLICATIONS - The United States national strategy for artificial intelligence (AI), the American AI Initiative, identifies research and development (R&D) as a top priority for maintaining global leadership in AI. The United States leads the world in AI innovation, due in large… ...
NATIONAL STRATEGIC COMPUTING INITIATIVE UPDATE: PIONEERING THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING (11/14/2019) PUBLICATIONS - The national computing landscape is undergoing rapid evolution along multiple dimensions due to the introduction of new and potentially disruptive technologies and the demands of new classes of data-intensive applications. Computer architectures and systems are more heterogeneous and complex, and… ...
SECURITY FROM A WIRELESS SPECTRUM PERSPECTIVE: TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND POLICY RESEARCH NEEDS (9/30/2019) CYBERSECURITY, PUBLICATIONS, WIRELESS SPECTRUM - Communications over the wireless medium pose security threats that are yet to be fully understood. It is currently possible for attackers that are within the wireless range to hijack or intercept an unprotected connection without being detected. With the advent… ...
FY2020 FEDERAL CYBERSECURITY R&D STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP (9/10/2019) CYBERSECURITY, PUBLICATIONS, STRATEGY DOCUMENTS - This document provides FY2020 implementation details for the 2016 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan, developed by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program’s Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CSIA) Interagency Working Group (IWG). This Strategic… ...
SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT’S FY2020 BUDGET (9/10/2019) PUBLICATIONS, SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET - Information technologies (IT) – including networking, computing, and software – comprise the most broadly transformative suite of technologies ever invented. American innovations in these fields since the late 1960s have led the world into a new technological era and opened… ...