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...

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...

U.S. federal investments in networking research and technologies deployment have fostered and accelerated the development of the Internet from its inception. It is now an essential infrastructure for the United States and the world. However, it is clear that we must make this infrastructure more flexible, resilient, secure, reliable, and ubiquitous to keep pace with society?s needs and our aspirations for the 21st century...

...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...

This report presents the results of a study of the global Networking and Information Technology NIT workforce undertaken for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development NITRD Program. The objective of the study was to review existing data and literature and interview experts to analyze NIT workforce issues facing the United States and its likely global competitors over the next decade...

Pursuant to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, Public Law 113-274, this document provides FY2025 implementation details for the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan. It lists key federal R&D programs that directly contribute to addressing the cybersecurity challenges outlined in the 2023 Plan. This document accompanies the NITRD-NAIIO Supplement to the President’s FY2025 Budget Request (NAIIO is the National AI Initiative Office) available at https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/FY2025-NITRD-NAIIO-Supplement.pdf.

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.

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 document provides FY 2023 implementation plans for the 2019 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan (Plan), developed by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program’s Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CSIA) Interagency Working Group (IWG). This roadmap is provided per statutory requirement for public provision of this information pursuant to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, Public Law 113-274, Section 201(a)(2)(D), Implementation Roadmap, and under direction from the NITRD Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. This document accompanies the NITRD Program and the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office Supplement to the President's FY 2023 Budget (https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/FY2023-NITRD-NAIIO-Supplement.pdf)