Congress will no doubt take an interest in the distribution of resources among the participating agencies as well as among the laboratories or centers in which the machines would be located. Six federal agencies have requested funds to participate in the initiative. A new senior management team has been formed within the National Science and Technology Council to set policy and coordinate initiative activities. The team is being supported by a working group charged with preparing research plans and budgets for the entire effort. The CIC program component areas include High End Computing and Computation, Large Scale Networking, High Confidence Systems, Human Centered Systems, and Education, Training, and Human Resources.
Directorate chairs the working group mentioned above.
Development locations for the machines will be awarded on a competitive basis. ARDA is a joint effort of DOD and the intelligence community to support long-term research on problems and enabling technologies relevant to intelligence and information security. A number of other applications in basic science that fulfill these criteria, e.g., genomics, would also be initiated. DOE's efforts in crosscutting and enabling technologies would be expected to both drive and profit from fundamental research in information technology. The hardware strategy would be driven by the applications requirements and would be based on the acquisition of a balanced system of advanced computers for computational methods and software development as well as the demanding applications described above.