Sally E. Howe is Associate Director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD). The NCO coordinates the planning, budgeting, and assessment activities for the Federal government's 13-agency $3 billion per year NITRD Program.
The NCO supports the NITRD Subcommittee of the Committee on Technology under the President’s National Science and Technology Council. Dr. Howe coordinates the activities of the NCO's technical staff, including their support for the Interagency Working Groups and Coordinating Groups that report to the NITRD Subcommittee. Those Groups plan and implement multi-agency activities in the following areas:
CSIA |
Cyber Security and Information Assurance |
HEC |
High End Computing (including HEC Infrastructure and Applications and HEC Research and Development) |
HCI&IM |
Human Computer Interaction and Information Management
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LSN |
Large Scale Networking |
HCSS |
High Confidence Software and Systems |
SEW |
Social, Economic, and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development |
SDP |
Software Design and Productivity |
She was responsible for coordinating NCO technical support for the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) comprising experts from business and academia who provide expert independent advice to the President and Congress on the Federal role in maintaining U.S. preeminence in advanced information technologies. Their recent reports are “Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology,” “Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization,” and “Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness.”
She now performs similar functions for the Networking and Information Technology (NIT) Subcommittee of the PCAST, which is tasked by Executive Order 13385 to review the NITRD Program.
She also oversees NCO budget and finance activities and helps oversee the www.nitrd.gov Web site.
Dr. Howe has been at the NCO since it was established in 1992, serving first as Assistant Director for Technology and then as Chief of Staff. Prior to that she spent 12 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including four years as Chief of the Scientific Computing Environments Division within the Center for Applied Mathematics. Before joining the Federal government, she was an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University and an Instructor in Mathematics at Keystone Junior College.
She holds a B.A. in Mathematics from William Smith College, an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University.
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