Federal Smart Cities and Communities Programs Resource Guide
The Resource Guide describes Federally-funded research and development (R&D) programs in smart cities and communities. These R&D programs seek to connect infrastructure and other physical technology with sensors, communications, and information technology —the essence of smart city and community solutions.
The National Artificial Intelligence Research And Development Strategic Plan
"This National Artificial Intelligence R&D Strategic Plan establishes a set of objectives for Federally-funded AI research, both research occurring within the government as well as Federally-funded research occurring outside of government, such as in academia"...
The National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI)
The NSCI was launched by Executive Order (EO) 13702 in July 2015 to advance U.S. leadership in high performance computing (HPC).
The Federal Big Data Research and Development Strategic Plan
This plan highlights emerging Big Data capabilities and provides guidance for developing or expanding Federal Big Data research and development (R&D) plans...
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 Supplement to the President’s Budget for the NITRD Program provides a technical summary of the research activities planned and coordinated through NITRD in a given Federal budget cycle, as required by law. The details are organized by Program Component Area (PCA) and presented using a common format: More...
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. The FASTER CoP, JET, and MAGIC Team provide an
opportunity for the public to engage and participate in information sharing among Federal agencies and non-Federal participants. More...
The Large Scale Networking (LSN) Workshop on Operationalizing SDN will be held from September 18 until September 20 in Washington, D.C. The workshop is in sequel to two previous workshops in 2013 and 2015, with the purpose to invite participants from the academia, industry, open source software communities, and government agencies to discuss the current state and forward pathways for the realization of an open, innovative, multi-domain and inter-operable SDN as an operational infrastructure. The workshop intends to facilitate an objective and constructive dialogue among different SDN stakeholder communities. It will provide input for LSN to identify opportunities and strategies towards the next important milestones for operational SDN.
Big Data IWG: Workshop on an Open Knowledge Network: Enabling the Community to Build the Network
August 24, 2017
Starting in July 2016, the Big Data Interagency Working Group (BD IWG) leadership has been involved in two meetings to discuss the viability, and possible first steps to creating a joint public/private open data network infrastructure, the Open Knowledge Network (OKN). The vision of OKN is to create an open knowledge graph of all known entities and their relationships, ranging from the macro (have there been unusual clusters of earthquakes in the US in the past six months?) to the micro (what is the best combination of chemotherapeutic drugs for a 56 y/o female with stage 3 glioblastoma and an FLT3 mutation but no symptoms of AML?). OKN is meant to be an inclusive, open, community activity resulting in a knowledge infrastructure that could facilitate and empower a host of applications and open new research avenues including how to create trustworthy knowledge networks/graphs.
A third workshop is planned for October 3-4 at NIH. This workshop will examine what OKN related projects the Federal Agencies are already involved in, how those projects can collaborate with private sector efforts, and what the next steps need to be. The workshop will focus on particular domains, and discuss how to enable an open contributing community. The meeting is by invitation only, but the plenary sessions will be available via webcast.
For more information, please refer to the OKN White Paper, and the OKN Next Steps documents that were produced as a result of the first two meetings
To learn more about the Big Data Interagency Working Group (IWG)
please visit Big Data IWG home page.
Dr. Robert Bohn, NIST Cloud Computing Program Manager at the Advanced Networking Technologies Division, Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), NIST, discusses the latest developments in High Quality Metric-Based SLAs for Cloud Computing.
Principles of co-existence and interference tolerance are often overlooked and under-exploited in today’s radio receiver systems. For example, a receiver’s ability to accept wanted signals or reject unwanted signals impacts the quality of the information transmitted. The Wireless Spectrum R&D Interagency Working Group (WSRD) held a workshop, “Radio Receiver Systems: R&D Innovation Needs, and Impacts on Technology and Policy”, on May 5, 2017 at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia. The workshop addressed various signal reception topics including technology advances for receivers, transmitters, filters, antenna design, signal processing techniques, and policy issues... For more information on the workshop please visit WSRD IX workshop page.
