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SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT’S FY2019 BUDGET

(August 21, 2018)
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Information technology (IT) is perhaps the most broadly transformative technology ever invented, with impacts on defense, security, energy, healthcare, and more. Innovation in IT continually enables pivotal new applications that advance U.S. national priorities and Federal agency missions. For 27 years, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program has been the Nation’s primary source of federally funded research and development (R&D) on networking and information technology. The Program maximizes coordination of Federal IT R&D to optimize Federal investments that support agency missions and contribute to the public good.

NITRD NEWSLETTER – JULY 2018

(July 16, 2018)
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“Serving as NITRD NCO Director for the past two years has reinforced my appreciation of the importance of Federal IT R&D in addressing the challenges and pursuing the opportunities of advancing IT. I am also reminded that new challenges and opportunities always lie ahead. One challenge and opportunity is particularly clear as I prepare to return to NASA: the need to purposefully move our innovations across the technology “valley of death” – the gap between positive research results and usable solutions that benefit our agencies and Nation…” – Dr. Bryan Biegel (Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information).…

“MOVING BUREAUCRACIES TOWARD MODERN CLOUD PRACTICE”

(June 1, 2018)
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Across the government, different groups are identifying technologies, policies and acquisition strategies that clear away barriers and help agencies begin to realize the full benefits of cloud. Too often, cloud adoption recreates physical datacenters, and doesn’t realize the cloud benefits of experimentation, iteration, rapid release and disposability, while increasing security and compliance through automation. Will and Peter discuss the range of cloud needs across agencies, successful agile cloud migration strategies we’ve applied, how 18F has helped another agency move to biweekly releases (while saving 1.5% of their total budget), how Federalist has saved over $10 million/year in compliance costs alone while helping agencies experiment with cloud hosting, and where they see these efforts moving over the next year.

NITRD NEWSLETTER – APRIL 2018

(April 16, 2018)
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“Artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived – driverless cars, home and mobile assistants, real-time traffic routing, advising systems for everything from stock markets to healthcare, helpdesk chatbots, and more. Rapid AI advancements are enabled by technologies that NITRD agencies helped create, including powerful and pervasive networked computing and sensors, big data, and machine learning (ML) algorithms…” – Dr. Bryan Biegel (Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information).

“FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CYBERSECURITY” – MATTHEW BARRETT

(March 22, 2018)
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With increasing reliance on technology, businesses are increasingly transitioning from trust to digital trust models. This transition has been hindered by the lack of a common language for understanding, managing, and expressing cybersecurity risk inside and outside of organizations. The Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (“The Framework”) was published in February 2014 to provide a common cybersecurity risk management language, as well as a common approach. The Framework can be used to help identify and prioritize actions for reducing cybersecurity risk, and is a tool for aligning policy, business, and technological approaches to managing that risk.

NITRD NEWSLETTER – JANUARY 2018

(January 16, 2018)
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“The NITRD Program will be essential in helping our Nation achieve a brighter future through advances in information technology (IT). Evidence of this is seen in past Federal IT R&D, which led to technologies that help us today (e.g. the Internet, Global Positioning System, and smartphone assistants). Current Federal IT R&D is creating a world of personalized learning, personalized healthcare, and computers capable of answering any technical question… The U.S. government has a decades-long record of helping to achieve a brighter future with advanced IT through two roles: leading the world’s IT advancement through aggressive funding of IT R&D, and leading the use of IT for social good, as evidenced by recent NITRD area strategic plans, which seek societal interests as well as technology advancement…” – Dr. Bryan Biegel (Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information).”