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National Objectives for Digital Assets Research and Development

This document lays out national objectives for R&D related to digital assets, as defined in Executive Order 14067. This includes R&D on technology that underpins digital assets, such as blockchain and other distributed ledger technology (DLT), as well as applied R&D for digital assets both inside and outside of the financial ecosystem.

Tags: blockchain, digital-assets, distributed-ledger-technology
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
The Convergence of High Performance Computing, Big Data, and Machine Learning: Summary of the Big Data and High End Computing Interagency Working Groups Joint Workshop

The high performance computing (HPC) and big data (BD) communities traditionally have pursued independent trajectories in the world of computational science. HPC has been synonymous with modeling and simulation, and BD with ingesting and analyzing data from diverse sources, including from simulations. However, both communities are evolving in response to changing user needs and technological landscapes. Researchers are increasingly using machine learning (ML) not only for data analytics but also for modeling and simulation; science-based simulations are increasingly relying on embedded ML models not only to interpret results from massive data outputs but also to steer computations. Science-based models are being combined with data-driven models to represent complex systems and phenomena. There also is an increasing need for real-time data analytics, which requires large-scale computations to be performed closer to the data and data infrastructures, to adapt to HPC-like modes of operation. These new use cases create a vital need for HPC and BD systems to deal with simulations and data analytics in a more unified fashion. To explore this need, the NITRD Big Data and High-End Computing R&D Interagency Working Groups held a workshop, The Convergence of High-Performance Computing, Big Data, and Machine Learning, on October 29-30, 2018, in Bethesda, Maryland. The purposes of the workshop were to bring together representatives from the public, private, and academic sectors to share their knowledge and insights on integrating HPC, BD, and ML systems and approaches and to identify key research challenges and opportunities. The 58 workshop participants represented a balanced cross-section of stakeholders involved in or impacted by this area of research. Additional workshop information, including a webcast, is available at https://www.nitrd.gov/nitrdgroups/index.php?title=HPC-BD-Convergence.

Tags: analytics, applications, bd, big-data, computing, convergence, data, development, ecosystem, hardware, hec, heterogeneity, high-end-computing, high-performance-computing, hpc, information, large-scale, machine-learning, ml, national, performance, research, science, simulation, software, systems, technology, workflow
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
Future Computing Community of Interest Meeting of August 5-6, 2019

The Future Computing (FC) Community of Interest (CoI) meeting on August 5–6, 2019, explored the evolving computing landscape to inform agencies about potential opportunities as well as gaps in the Nation's future computing objectives. The meeting focused on where computing will be in the next decade and beyond while also looking at emerging and future applications. It considered the need for new software concepts and approaches to effectively capitalize on new hardware architectures and paradigms. The long period of sustained growth in computing power over the last five decades, characterized by Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling, is expected to end over the next decade. The continued improvement in computing performance will now require moving to new modalities and new means of cooperation and partnership for the benefit of the Nation. The FC-CoI meeting was held at the offices of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program in Washington, D.C. The meeting brought together key members of industry, academia, and the Federal Government over a two-day period to discuss the future of computing. The meeting had been advertised in the Federal Register to encourage broad participation from the advanced computing community. More detail about the meeting is available at https://www.nitrd.gov/nitrdgroups/index.php?title=FC-COI-2019.

Tags: applications, architectures, computing, data, development, emerging, federal, future, hardware, information, meeting, models, national, paradigm, participant, partnership, research, science, software, systems, technology
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan: 2019 Update

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise to benefit nearly all aspects of society, including the economy, healthcare, security, the law, transportation, even technology itself. On February 11, 2019, the President signed Executive Order 13859, Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. This order launched the American AI Initiative, a concerted effort to promote and protect AI technology and innovation in the United States. The Initiative implements a whole-of-government strategy in collaboration and engagement with the private sector, academia, the public, and like-minded international partners. Among other actions, key directives in the Initiative call for Federal agencies to prioritize AI research and development (R&emp;D) investments, enhance access to high-quality cyberinfrastructure and data, ensure that the Nation leads in the development of technical standards for AI, and provide education and training opportunities to prepare the American workforce for the new era of AI. In support of the American AI Initiative, this National AI R&emp;D Strategic Plan: 2019 Update defines the priority areas for Federal investments in AI R&emp;D. This 2019 update builds upon the first National AI R&emp;D Strategic Plan released in 2016, accounting for new research, technical innovations, and other considerations that have emerged over the past three years. This update has been developed by leading AI researchers and research administrators from across the Federal Government, with input from the broader civil society, including from many of America’s leading academic research institutions, nonprofit organizations, and private sector technology companies. Feedback from these key stakeholders affirmed the continued relevance of each part of the 2016 Strategic Plan while also calling for greater attention to making AI trustworthy, to partnering with the private sector, and other imperatives.

Tags: deep-neural-networks, development, embodied, engineering, ethical, explainability, explainable, generative-adversarial-networks, government, human-ai-collaboration, information, learning, machine-learning, mathematics, ml, national, natural-language-processing, performance, public-private-partnership, research, safety, science, security, standards, stem, strategic-plan, strategy, system, technology, testbed, transparent, trustworthy, understanding, workforce
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
Research and Development Priorities for American Leadership in Wireless Communications

This report responds to the October 25, 2018, Presidential Memorandum on Developing a Sustainable Spectrum Strategy for America's Future and contains recommendations for prioritizing R&emp;D to advance radio frequency spectrum access and efficiency, as called for in Section 2(c) of the Memorandum. The report focuses on R&emp;D efforts to create a flexible R&emp;D environment that advances spectrum technologies to meet current and future spectrum requirements for the broad communications needs of the Nation. This report supports Administration spectrum goals by identifying spectrum R&emp;D priorities across Federal and private sectors for ongoing, increased, and new R&emp;D investments in both the near term (5-10 years) and the long term (greater than 10 years). The priorities report looks beyond only mobile and broadband communications to examine the entire spectrum ecosystem, including science and meteorological observations, radar, radiolocation, and navigation. The report considers the impact of R&emp;D across the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as emerging network architectures and application domains expected in the future that will rely on the existence of a reliable wireless communication system.

Tags: communications, development, efficiency, federal, flexible, frequency, improve, increase, information, leadership, national, networks, priorities, recommendations, report, research, science, security, spectrum, support, systems, technology, united-states, wireless
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
Connecting and Securing Communities: A Guide for Federal Agencies Supporting Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment of Technology for Smart Cities and Communities

The Smart Cities and Communities Task Force, a body under the NITRD Cyber-Physical Systems Interagency Working Group, developed Connecting and Securing Communities to provide Federal agencies with guidance in supporting research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) of technology to enable U.S. cities and communities to build “smart” infrastructure, systems, and services. Five high-level recommended practices are provided to inform Federal agencies in supporting smart city and community efforts. Four effective approaches, illustrated by case studies from current and past Federal programs and projects, are provided to assist agencies in facilitating job growth and economic prosperity through Federally funded RDD&D in smart cities and communities. Connecting and Securing Communities envisions Federal agencies working with industry, local leaders, civil society, academia, and other key stakeholders to accelerate the development and implementation of new discoveries and innovations that enable cities and communities to achieve their local goals and address their most important challenges.

Tags: agency, communities, demonstration, deployment, development, federal, guide, research, security, smart-cities, technology
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
Operationalizing Software-Defined Networking: Summary of Large Scale Networking Workshop

The Large Scale Networking Interagency Working Group held an Operationalizing Software-Defined Networks Workshop on September 18-20, 2017, in Washington, DC. At this workshop, Federal, private, and academic stakeholders discussed the current state-of-the-art and path forward to realize an open, innovative, multidomain, and interoperable software-defined network (SDN) as an operational infrastructure that can rapidly adjust to the evolving communication and computing needs of science, engineering, and commerce, while simultaneously enhancing the economics, security, evolution, and manageability of the network.The Operationalizing Software-Defined Networks 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.

Tags: commerce, communication, computing, engineering, infrastructure, large-scale-networking, science, sdn, software-defined-networking
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
FY2019 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap

This document provides FY2019 implementation details for the 2016 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan (https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/2016-Federal-Cybersecurity-Research-and-Development-Strategic-Plan.pdf), developed by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program's Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CSIA) Interagency Working Group (IWG). This Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap is provided per statutory requirement pursuant to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, and under direction from the NITRD Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. This document accompanies the NITRD Supplement to the President's FY2019 Budget.

Tags: activity, adapt, agency, assurance, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, detect, deter, development, information, plan, program, protect, research, roadmap, security, strategy, system, technology
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
Supplement to the President`s FY2019 Budget

This document is a supplement to the President's FY2019 Budget Request to Congress. It describes the activities planned for FY2019 by the Federal agencies participating in the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. It reports actual investments for FY2017, estimated investments for FY2018, and requested funding levels for FY2019 by agency and Program Component Area (PCA). For the FY2019 budget request, this Supplement identifies the strategic priorities, key programs, and key coordination activities of each NITRD PCA. An appendix to the Supplement, the FY2019 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap, lists the existing and proposed Federal R&D projects and programs that address the Nation's critical cybersecurity challenges.

Tags: agency, budget, budget-supplement, communication, computing, coordination, data, development, federal, information, national, networking, pca, program, research, science, security, software, system, technology
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
NITRD NewsLetter - July 2018

Welcome to the July 2018 issue of the NITRD Leads IT quarterly newsletter of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program. "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).

Tags: artificial-intelligence, challenges, data-visualization, information, newsletter, nitrd-supplement, opportunities, research, technology, wireless-spectrum
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
Measuring the Impact of Digital Repositories: Recommendations

Traditionally, digital data repositories have been relatively basic online storage spaces for raw data, but with changing data demands, they are expanding to include complex functionality and specific analytic tools. New incentives for data sharing are driving data repositories to become more interconnected and interdependent just as more researchers seek trusted places to deposit their research data. Best practices and methods to assess data repositories' impacts and effectiveness, as well as to consider innovative ways to ensure their long-term financial viability, are critical for advancing scientific research across all domains. The Big Data Interagency Working Group (BD IWG) held a workshop, Measuring the Impact of Digital Repositories, on February 28 - March 1, 2017 in Arlington, VA. This report outlines BD IWG's recommendations and steps to accomplish R&D goals related to data repositories...

Tags: big-data, development, digital, impact, information, national, organization, policy, repositories, research, science
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
Open Knowledge Network: Summary of the Big Data IWG Workshop

Since July 2016, the Big Data Interagency Working Group (BD IWG) has been involved in meetings to discuss the viability of and possible first steps to creating a public-private data network infrastructure, the Open Knowledge Network (OKN). 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.

Tags: access, big-data, community, development, domain, national, network, okn, ontologies, open-knowledge-network, science
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
Radio Receiver Systems R&D Innovation Needs: Recommendations of the WSRD IWG

To address the challenges of the rapidly changing landscape for radio receivers, the WSRD IWG developed recommendations for Federal R&D, standards development, and policy in radio receiver systems that imply coordination and collaboration with the private and academic sectors. WSRD held internal interagency discussions that included reviewing individual participant input from a May 2017 IWG workshop that included non-Federal experts from across the wireless research community...

Tags: development, federal, information, performance, policy, radio, receiver, research, science, spectrum, systems, technology
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
WSRD Radio Receiver Systems: R&D Innovation Needs and Impacts on Technology and Policy Workshop Summary

The Wireless Spectrum R&D (WSRD) Interagency Working Group (IWG) held a workshop, Radio Receiver Systems: R&D Innovation Needs and Impacts on Technology and Policy, on May 5, 2017, in Washington, D.C. At this workshop, Federal, private, and academic stakeholders discussed their individual views regarding the need for innovation in radio receiver systems. This workshop report outlines research topics that were discussed by a cross-section of experts with the goal of improving radio receiver systems. Past efforts to achieve better performance and more efficient spectrum use have focused on frequency-division and time-division allocations, but the explosion of wireless data service applications is driving the need for innovative changes in modern radio systems. Many systems are moving to wideband performance characteristics to increase their capabilities and performance. This reliance on wideband spectrum in the lower spectrum bands and the high-frequency millimeter wave bands requires designing and developing radio systems with increased functionality in both the transmitters and receivers. Improving overall system performance depends heavily on receivers being designed and built to deal with increased spectrum congestion and interference. Receiver design also needs to consider the full radio system to fully characterize and quantify performance. Upfront system engineering is needed for improved coexistence approaches that reduce overall interference. In addition, designers must balance performance metrics (e.g., sensitivity, selectivity, and efficiency) against costs, and policymakers must find ways to facilitate improved performance and information exchange that is both secure and private...

Tags: design, development, improve, information, innovation, interference, needs, performance, policy, radio, receiver
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
Frontiers of Data Visualization Workshop II: Data Wrangling Workshop Summary

The Data Visualization Workshop II: Data Wrangling was a web-based event held on October 18, 2017. This workshop report summarizes the individual perspectives of a group of visualization experts from the public, private, and academic sectors who met online to discuss how to improve the creation and use of high-quality visualizations. The specific focus of this workshop was on the complexities of "data wrangling". Data wrangling includes finding the appropriate data sources that are both accessible and usable and then shaping and combining that data to facilitate the most accurate and meaningful analysis possible. The workshop was organized as a 3-hour web event and moderated by the members of the Human Computer Interaction and Information Management Task Force of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program's Big Data Interagency Working Group. Report prepared by the Human Computer Interaction And Information Management Task Force, Big Data Interagency Working Group, Networking & Information Technology Research & Development Subcommittee, Committee On Technology Of The National Science & Technology Council...

Tags: data, development, frontiers, group, information, research, science, technology, visualization, wrangling
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
NITRD NewsLetter - January 2017

Welcome to the third issue of NITRD Leads IT, a quarterly newsletter of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program. Two January events are at the top of my mind: the Administration transition and signing of the new NITRD legislation. With the change in Administration, NITRD will continue to deliver on the requirements in our authorization legislation… - Dr. Bryan Biegel (Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information)

Tags: newsletter, nitrd, nitrd-program, nitrdleadsit
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President
NITRD NewsLetter - April 2017

Welcome to the fourth issue of the NITRD Leads IT quarterly newsletter of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program. "Brace for Impact!" Usually, those words strike fear, but for NITRD, they are a call to action. Ultimately, all government investments should be measured by its impact on societal benefits such as economic prosperity, national security, and quality of life. The challenge for R&D, such as that coordinated by NITRD, is… - Dr. Bryan Biegel (Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information)

Tags: newsletter, nitrd, nitrd-program, nitrdleadsit
Organization: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President