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...

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...

The Large Scale Networking Interagency Working Group held an Operationalizing Software-Defined Networks Workshop on September 18-20, 2017, in Washington, DC. At this workshop, Federal, private, and academic stakeholders discussed the current state-of-the-art and path forward to realize an open, innovative, multidomain, and interoperable software-defined network (SDN) as an operational infrastructure that can rapidly adjust to the evolving communication and computing needs of science, engineering, and commerce, while simultaneously enhancing the economics, security, evolution, and manageability of the network.The Operationalizing Software-Defined Networks Report discusses SDN adoption and identification of key areas for further exploration, focusing on flexibly enabling end-to-end paths to network, compute, and storage resources with customizable properties, using software to easily assemble such paths across hardware infrastructure, with favorable economics, security, evolution, and operation manageability.

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...

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.

Complex engineered networks are everywhere: power grids, Internet, transportation networks, and more. They are being used more than ever before, and yet our understanding of them remains limited. These networks have evolved into complex systems with behaviors and characteristics that are beyond the characterizations and predictions possible by the traditional modeling, analysis and design approaches...

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)

...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...