  Strategic, sustained Federal investments in intelligent infrastructure will
increase safety and resilience, improve efficiencies and civic services, and
broaden employment opportunities and job growth nationwide. The technologies
that comprise intelligent infrastructure can also provide keys to solving some
of the most vexing challenges we face today, including confronting future
pandemics and natural disasters, achieving sustainability and energy efficiency
goals, and advancing social justice. Enabling those technologies effectively
will require investment in the associated computing research as well, beyond
and in concert with the basic building projects. In 2017, the Computing
Community Consortium (CCC) produced a series of intelligent infrastructure
whitepapers, and in 2020 CCC issued a set of companion whitepapers on closely
related topics. Here we briefly survey those earlier works, and then highlight
four themes of rising national prominence where intelligent infrastructure can
also play an enabling role, driven by experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic
and the social justice movement. We conclude with recommendations for the
necessary research investments.
