NITRD NEWSLETTER – DECEMBER 2020 (12/23/2020) NEWS, NEWSLETTER, PUBLICATIONS - The December newsletter includes many interesting areas for you to explore: * SNIPPETS: These are short descriptions with corresponding links to what NITRD's Federal agency members are doing in scientific computing technologies, including work to help fight COVID-19, which is… ...
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES FOR A NATIONAL STRATEGIC COMPUTING RESERVE (NSCR) (12/22/2020) FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE - OSTP and the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Subcommittees on the Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem (FACE) and Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) request input from interested parties on the goals, value, and necessary approaches for establishing… ...
PIONEERING THE FUTURE ADVANCED COMPUTING ECOSYSTEM: A STRATEGIC PLAN (11/18/2020) PUBLICATIONS, STRATEGY DOCUMENTS - This strategic plan envisions a future advanced computing ecosystem that provides the foundation for continuing American leadership in science and engineering, economic competitiveness, and national security. It develops a whole-of-nation approach based on input from government, academia, nonprofits, and industry… ...
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEVERAGING CLOUD COMPUTING RESOURCES FOR FEDERALLY FUNDED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (11/17/2020) AI, PUBLICATIONS - This report is a product of interagency collaboration, led by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Select Committee on AI and Subcommittee on Machine Learning and AI (MLAI), that is one of several measures responding to the February 11,… ...
NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY CAREER AWARENESS WEEK: RESOURCES FOR A CYBERSECURITY CAREER (11/10/2020) CYBERSECURITY, NEWS - Information technology (IT) is part of every aspect of modern life. Emerging technologies such as high-speed mobile networking and smart cities promise that cyberspace will continue to offer exceptional benefits to society. However, as society uses IT more there is… ...
NITRD’S SPOTLIGHT ON CYBERSECURITY CAREERS (11/9/2020) CYBERSECURITY, NEWS - Cybersecurity is a relatively new field especially in light that the global internet did not come into existence as we know it until the 1980’s. Mobile devices accelerated the use of the internet because it became easy to obtain information… ...
NOTICE OF VIRTUAL WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE IN THE ERA OF EXTREME HETEROGENEITY (8/25/2020) FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE - The workshop on “Software in the Era of Extreme Heterogeneity” will explore challenges and opportunities brought on by extreme heterogeneity of emerging and future computational platforms and how software and community must evolve to respond to the challenges being placed… ...
AI R&D INVESTMENTS DASHBOARD (8/21/2020) AI, RESOURCES - In support of Executive Order 13859, "Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence", and The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan: 2019 Update, NITRD worked with Federal agencies to establish a process to accurately account for AI R&D investments, given that… ...
FY2021 FEDERAL CYBERSECURITY R&D STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP (8/14/2020) CYBERSECURITY, PUBLICATIONS, STRATEGY DOCUMENTS - View Full Text: FY2021-Cybersecurity-RD-Roadmap.pdf This document provides FY2021 implementation plans for the 2019 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan (Plan), developed by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program’s Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CSIA) Interagency Working Group (IWG).… ...
NITRD SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT’S FY2021 BUDGET (8/14/2020) PUBLICATIONS, SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET - View Full Text: FY2021-NITRD-Supplement.pdf Information technology (IT) and its enabling computing, networking, and software technologies have radically transformed human society across the globe over the course of just two generations. American innovators, companies, and government led this transformation. As global competition… ...