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...

This paper documents the findings of the March 12-14, 2001 Workshop on New Visions for Large-Scale Networks: Research and Applications. The workshops objectives were to develop a vision for the future of networking 10 to 20 years out and to identify needed Federal networking research to enable that vision...

As required by statute, the President`s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is tasked with periodically reviewing the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, the Nation's primary source of federally funded research and development in advanced information technologies such as computing, networking, and software. This report examines the NITRD Program's progress since the last review was conducted in 2015, explores emerging areas of interest relevant to the NITRD Program, and presents PCAST's findings and recommendations.

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...

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 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...

This Interagency Coordination Report ICR provides a comprehensive description of the FY 2004 activities of the multi-agency $2 billion Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development NITRD Program and the organizations that implement them. The NITRD Program is one of several formal interagency programs in the Federal government. It provides agencies that perform ITR and D with the ability to plan, budget, coordinate, implement, and assess their ITR and D programs.

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

In a visionary future, Human-Computer Interaction HCI and Information Management IM have the potential to enable humans to better manage their lives through the use of synergistic human-computer empowered information systems. This report identifies and illustrates the problems that underlie HCI and IM R and D and provides a context and snapshot of Government approaches to HCI and IM R and D for the development and use of integrated on-line information technologies...