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Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program
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Agency overview
FormedEstablished: January 3, 1991 (1991-01-03)
JurisdictionUnited States
HeadquartersWashington, DC, U.S.
Agency executives
  • Bryan Biegel [1], Director of the NITRD NCO
  • Kamie Roberts [2], Deputy Director
Websitewww.nitrd.gov

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program consists of a group of U.S. federal agencies to research and develop information technology (IT) capabilities to empower Federal missions; support U.S. science, engineering, and technology leadership; and bolster U.S. economic competitiveness. The inter-agency program focuses on identifying research that will help the United States to "out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world".[3]

Working groups

NITRD program activities are organized into ten program component areas (PCAs), fourteen coordination groups (CGs), task force groups, teams, and a community of practice (CoP). The NITRD Subcommittee convenes three times a year and the working groups meet approximately monthly. These groups provide input to the NITRD supplement to the president's budget.

NITRD working groups are organized in the following program component areas for FY 2019:

  • CHuman - Computing-Enabled Human Interaction, Communication, and Augmentation. CHuman involves R&D of information technologies that enhance a person's ability to interact with IT systems, other people, and the physical world, including R&D in social computing, human-human and human-machine interaction and collaboration, rational decision-making, command and control, and human and social impacts of IT.
  • CNPS - Computing-Enabled Networked Physical Systems. CNPS involves R&D for information technology-enabled systems that integrate the cyber/information, physical, and human worlds, including R&D of cyber-physical systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), and related complex, high-reliability, networked, distributed computing systems.
  • CSP - Cyber Security and Privacy. CSP involves R&D to protect information and information systems from cyber threats and to prevent adverse privacy effects arising from information processing, including R&D to deter, detect, prevent, resist, respond to, recover from, and adapt to threats to the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of information and information systems, as well as R&D of privacy-protecting information systems and standards.
  • EdW - Education and Workforce. EdW involves R&D using information technology to improve education and training, including IT to enhance learning, teaching, assessment, and standards, as well as preparation of next-generation cyber-capable citizens and professionals.
  • EHCS - Enabling-R&D for High-Capability Computing Systems. EHCS involves R&D to advance high-capability computing and develop fundamentally new approaches in high-capability computing, including R&D in hardware and hardware subsystems, software, architectures, system performance, computational algorithms, data analytics, development tools, and software methods for extreme data- and compute-intensive workloads.
  • HCIA - High-Capability Computing Infrastructure and Applications . HCIA involves operation and utilization of systems and infrastructure for high-capability computing, including computation- and data-intensive systems and applications, directly associated software, communications, storage, and data management infrastructure, and other resources supporting high-capability computing.
  • IRAS - Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Systems. IRAS involves R&D of intelligent robotic systems, including R&D in robotics hardware and software design and application, machine perception, cognition and adaptation, mobility and manipulation, human-robot interaction, distributed and networked robotics, and increasingly autonomous systems.
  • LSDMA - Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis. LSDMA involves R&D to extract knowledge and insight from data, including R&D in the capture, curation, management, access, analysis, and presentation of large, diverse, often multisource, data.
  • LSN - Large-Scale Networking. LSN involves R&D of networking technologies and services, including R&D in networking architectures, wireless networks, software-defined networks, heterogeneous multimedia networks, testbeds, grid and cloud research and infrastructure, network service and cloud computing middleware, identity management, and end-to-end performance enhancement and performance measurement.
  • SPSQ - Software Productivity, Sustainability, and Quality. SPSQ involves R&D to advance timely and affordable development and sustainment of quality software, including R&D to significantly improve software production processes, productivity, quality, economics, sustainability, measurement, assurance, and adaptability.

Other coordination groups focus on emerging issues and are not required to report budgetary information to the NITRD program. They offer a means of collaboration for individuals with a senior level of authority who do not participate in the program component area working groups.

  • Big data research and development
  • Cyber physical systems
  • Health information technology research and development was established in 2010 in response to Section 13202(b) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA, P.L. 111-5) for bringing together health and IT communities.
  • Wireless spectrum research and development group was established in 2010 in response to the June 28, 2010 presidential memorandum Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution.[4]

Community of practice

Faster Administration of Science and Technology Education and Research (FASTER) Community of Practice (CoP) FASTER, supported by the NITRD NCO, communicates with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council concerning IT R&D matters that are of general interest to Federal agencies. FASTER's goal is to enhance collaboration and accelerate government agency adoption of advanced IT capabilities developed by government-sponsored IT research. The group is focused on the following strategic themes:

  • Cloud computing
  • Semantic web and ontology technology
  • Open government
  • Emerging technologies
  • Sharing knowledge, ideas, and best practices

Participating agencies

The following federal agencies report their IT research budgets in the NITRD "crosscut" and provide proportional funding to support NITRD's operations:

Department of Commerce

Department of Defense

Department of Energy

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Justice

Independent Agencies

Representatives of other agencies also participate.

Coordination

NITRD's National Coordination Office (NCO) supports NITRD's planning, budget, and assessment activities. The NCO also supports the NITRD Subcommittee, which coordinates the NITRD Program, and the organizations that report to the Subcommittee.[5] The NCO's director is appointed by the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The NCO works with the NITRD agencies, IWGs, CGs and the White House Office of Management and Budget to prepare, publish, and disseminate the Program's annual supplement to the President's Budget, Federal networking and IT R&D plans, and networking and IT research needs reports.

The NCO provides technical support for the activities of the Networking and Information Technology Subcommittee of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a panel of experts from industry and academia, in assessing the NITRD Program and preparing associated reports.

The NCO maintains the NITRD Web site - https://www.nitrd.gov - which contains information about the Program and electronic versions of NITRD documents

Publications

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program (formerly known as High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program) was created by the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, (P.L. 102-194)[7] and amended by the Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-305) [8], and the America COMPETES (Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science) Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-69)[9]. NITRD was reauthorized by Congress in the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2017 (P.L. 114-329)[10].

Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg was the founding Director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for NITRD, formerly the NCO for High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC). The High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 called for the coordination of activities in high-performance computing and the establishment of a National Research and Education Network (NREN) across Federal agencies. Dr. Lindberg led this effort from 1992 to 1995 while serving concurrently as the Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Directors

Name Dates Notes
Donald A.B. Lindberg September 1992 to March 1995
John C. Toole March 1995 to July 1997
Sally E. Howe July 1997 to December 1997 acting director
Kay Howell December 1997 to September 2000
Cita M. Furlani October 2000 to November 2002
David B. Nelson December 2002 to April 2005
Simon Szykman May 2005 to January 2007
Charles Romine January 2007 to October 2007 acting director
Christopher L. Greer October 2007 to September 2009
Ernest L. McDuffie September 2009 to November 2009 acting director
George O. Strawn November 2009 to June 2015
Keith Marzullo June 2015 - June 2016
Bryan Biegel June 2016 - present


References

  1. ^ "NCO - Directors: Bryan Biegel". www.nitrd.gov. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  2. ^ "NCO - Deputy Director: Kamie Roberts". www.nitrd.gov. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  3. ^ "A Strategy for American Innovation: Securing Our Economic Growth and Prosperity," President Barack Obama, February 4, 2011 (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/InnovationStrategy.pdf)
  4. ^ https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-unleashing-wireless-broadband-revolution, Section 3.
  5. ^ https://www.nitrd.gov/About/about_nco.aspx
  6. ^ Supplements to the President's Budget at nitrd.gov
  7. ^ High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P.L. 102-194)
  8. ^ https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/105th-congress/senate-report/173/1
  9. ^ https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/2272
  10. ^ https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3084/text
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