Computing-Enabled Networked Physical Systems

The CNPS Interagency Working Group (IWG) was formed in 2013 to coordinate Federal CNPS R&D across 23 participating agencies and to support the advancement and assurance of these types of systems. Guided by the Cyber Physical Systems Vision Statement, the IWG’s work includes complex, high-reliability, safety and security-critical, real-time computing, and engineered systems with varying degrees of autonomy and human-system interaction. Applications include automated vehicles, manufacturing, intelligent defense systems, smart grids, and smart cities.

Strategic Priorities

• Develop core science and engineering for CNPS technologies including unified foundations, models and analysis tools, system capabilities, interoperability standards, assurance approaches, and architectures.
• Catalyze research and innovation of new and emerging ideas for CNPS to enable safety, security, resilience, and robustness spanning system design, development, assurance, verification, and maintenance of systems. Example innovations include applications of AI, digital twins, formal methods, and other concepts emerging from CNPS and related NITRD IWGs. Innovations and research will span multiple time horizons leading to new capabilities for complex intelligent systems, including equitable societal resilience and robustness to climate change.
• Promote inclusive education, training, and career development through curricula that integrates CNPS and by providing venues for communication and collaboration among scientists and researchers.