"Everyone wins when we have an inclusive image of a STEM professional... An inclusive workforce provides a rich set of perspectives that enable innovation and creative discovery..." - Kamie Roberts, NCO Director and Co-chair, NITRD Subcommittee.
On October 4–5, 2017, the Big Data IWG hosted a workshop to both expand the discussion to similar work being done in biomedicine, finance, geoscience, and manufacturing and to gather expert advice on next steps to advance the OKN. This report summarizes those discussions...
The NITRD HITRD IWG requests input to collect information on new approaches from industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations, to solve the interoperability issues between medical devices, data, and platforms...
This report discusses SDN adoption and identification of key areas for further exploration, focusing on flexibly enabling end-to-end paths to network, compute, and storage resources with customizable properties, using software to easily assemble such paths across hardware infrastructure, with favorable economics, security, evolution, and operation manageability....
The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program is the Nation’s primary source of federally funded work on advanced information technologies (IT) in computing, networking, and software. The multiagency NITRD Program seeks to provide the research and development (R&D) foundations for assuring continued U.S. technological leadership and meeting the needs of the Federal Government for advanced information technologies. The NITRD Program also seeks to accelerate development and deployment of advanced information technologies in order to maintain world leadership in science and engineering, enhance national defense and national and homeland security, improve U.S. productivity and economic competitiveness, protect the environment, and improve the health, education, and quality of life of all Americans. More...
The annual NITRD Supplement to the President's Budget provides a technical summary of the research activities planned and coordinated through NITRD in a given Federal budget cycle. The details are organized by Program Component Area (PCAs), where the PCAs are major subject areas for Federal IT R&D. The FY2019 PCAs are:
For each PCA, agency representatives meet in an Interagency Working Group (IWG) to exchange information and collaborate on research plans and activities and the Science and Technology priorities of the Administration.
The NITRD Program holds meetings that are open for the public to attend. JET and MAGIC Teams provide an opportunity for the public to engage and participate in information sharing among Federal agencies and non-Federal participants. More...
