FY2019 FEDERAL CYBERSECURITY R&D STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP (8/21/2018) CYBERSECURITY, PUBLICATIONS, STRATEGY DOCUMENTS - Strong cybersecurity protects American innovation, strengthens our national security, and underpins America’s technology leadership. The FY2019 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap lists Federal agency programs being planned or carried out in fiscal years 2018 and 2019 to meet… ...
SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT’S FY2019 BUDGET (8/21/2018) 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… ...
BIG DATA: MEASURING THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL REPOSITORIES (7/20/2018) BIG DATA, PUBLICATIONS - There is a strong consensus in the scientific community that digital repositories are a critical component of the Nation's research infrastructure. This is especially true as repositories are evolving from storage spaces for basic raw data to facilities that support… ...
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW NITRD NCO DIRECTOR – MS. KAMIE ROBERTS (7/16/2018) NEWS - The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kamie Roberts as its new Director. In this role, she will also serve as the Co-chair for the NITRD Subcommittee.… ...
NITRD NEWSLETTER – JULY 2018 (7/16/2018) 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… ...
WIRELESS SPECTRUM: RADIO RECEIVER SYSTEMS (7/13/2018) 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… ...
FRONTIERS OF DATA VISUALIZATION WORKSHOP II: DATA WRANGLING WORKSHOP SUMMARY (7/13/2018) PUBLICATIONS - The Big Data (BD) Interagency Working Group (IWG) coordinates Federal agency research and development (R&D) to extract knowledge and insight from large, diverse, and disparate data sources, including mechanisms for data capture, curation, management, access, analysis, and visualization. The BD IWG works… ...
A NEW NITRD IWG FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) R&D (7/2/2018) AI, NEWS - "Artificial intelligence holds tremendous potential as a tool to empower the American worker, drive growth in American industry, and improve the lives of the American people. Our free market approach to scientific discovery harnesses the combined strengths of government, industry,… ...
“MOVING BUREAUCRACIES TOWARD MODERN CLOUD PRACTICE” (6/1/2018) 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… ...
MAGIC CONTAINERIZATION AND VIRTUALIZATION SPEAKER SERIES (FEBRUARY – MAY 2018) (4/30/2018) NEWS - In the Spring of 2018, The Middleware and Grid Interagency Coordination Team (MAGIC) held a four-part speaker series to examine the impact of containerization and virtualization technologies on computing ecosystems. The presentations and discussions focused on: (1) various packages that are in… ...