...rationalization and restructuring of computational science within universities and Federal agencies, and the development and maintenance of a multi-decade roadmap for computational science R and D investments.The report?s findings and recommendations were developed by the PITAC over a year of study. The Subcommittee was briefed by computational science experts in the Federal government, academia, and industry; reviewed the current literature; and obtained public input at PITAC meetings and a town hall meeting, and through written submissions...

Information technology IT computers, wired and wireless digital networks, electronic data and information, IT devices and systems, and software applications?today provides indispensable infrastructure for activities across all facets of society. Throughout the IT revolution, the United States has led the world in the invention and applications of these technologies. Ongoing research and development R and D to provide advanced IT capabilities for Federal missions has fueled the creation of new ideas, and innovations addressing key national priorities, including national security, national defense, economic prosperity, scientific discovery, energy and environment, health, individual privacy, and quality of life...

In the four decades since Federal research first enabled computers to send and receive data over networks, U.S. government research and development R and D in advanced networking has fueled a technological, economic, and social transformation. Today, networking is woven into the fabric of our society, a fundamental infrastructure for government operations, national defense and homeland security, commerce, communication, research, education, and leisure-time activities...

...the U.S. Government makes critical decisions about appropriate investments in IT R and D to help society forward both socially and economically. To inform that decision-making, in July of 2003, a group of leading Government technical program managers who participate in the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development NITRD Program completed their formulation of 16 illustrative science, engineering, and societal grand challenges...

Powerful personal computers, high-bandwidth and wireless networking technologies, and the widespread use of the Internet have transformed stand-alone computing systems and predominantly closed networks into the virtually seamless fabric of today`s information technology IT infrastructure. This infrastructure provides for the processing, transmission, and storage of vast amounts of vital information used in virtually every facet of society, and it enables Federal agencies to routinely interact with each other as well as with industry, private citizens, state and local governments, and the governments of other nations...

The 2010 Report of the President`s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST, entitled ?Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology,? documents the transformation of our society driven by advances in networking and information technology, catalyzed by our nation`s past investments in research. Our world today relies to an astonishing degree on systems, tools, and services that belong to a vast and still growing domain known as Networking and Information Technology NIT...

This strategic plan envisions a future advanced computing ecosystem that provides the foundation for continuing American leadership in science and engineering, economic competitiveness, and national security. It develops a whole-of-nation approach based on input from government, academia, nonprofits, and industry sectors, and builds on the objectives and recommendations of the 2019 National Strategic Computing Initiative Update: Pioneering the Future of Computing. This strategic plan also identifies agency roles and responsibilities and describes essential operational and coordination structures necessary to support and implement its objectives.

The National Strategic Computing Initiative Update builds on the 2016 Strategic Computing Plan to enable focused and collaborative research, development, and deployment of future computing technologies to benefit the Nation. Realizing the successes of the National Strategic Computing Initiative to date, this update examines steps beyond those already implemented for realizing a computing ecosystem that combines heterogeneous computing systems (from extreme-scale to edge-centered systems and beyond) with the networking, hardware, software, data, and expertise required to support national security and defense as well as U.S. scientific, engineering, and economic leadership.

The national advanced computing ecosystem is an essential strategic asset for our Nation's economy and security, for scientific and engineering discovery and innovation, and for implementing solutions to current and future challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and development of sustainable energy. The 2020 NSTC report, Pioneering the Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem: A Strategic Plan, laid out a vision for a Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem (FACE) and the objectives and initial planning necessary to achieve the vision. The FACE strategic plan, like the 2019 National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) Strategic Plan before it, focused on strategic objectives and outlined potential execution directions, leaving details to subsequent implementation plans such as outlined in this document. This Implementation Roadmap provides details of the research and development (R&D) activities that Federal agencies are currently planning to implement in fiscal year 2022 and beyond to meet the four objectives and the various subobjectives of the FACE Strategic Plan.

This report outlines a Federal proposal for setting up a National Strategic Computing Reserve (NSCR) that can be called on in times of national crisis to rapidly activate a multisector advanced computing reserve infrastructure that can speed solutions, and it defines a blueprint for operational and coordination structures that will support an NSCR implementation. The formation of the NSCR suggested in this document is based on the U.S. experience in 2020 of initiating and operating the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium and a public Request for Information on Potential Concepts and Approaches for an NSCR.