Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD)

1. Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD) Strategic Planning May, 2009 Chris Greer Director, US National Coordination Office Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program

2. NITRD Strategic Planning Team CO-CHAIRS Cita Furlani, NIST Jeannette Wing, NSF Chris Greer, NCO MEMBERS Peter Highnam, DHHS Thuc Hoang, DOE/NNSA Suzi Iacono, NSF Bob Meissner, DOE/SC Karen Reminton, NIH Gary Walter, EPA Al Wavering, NIST Bryan Biegel, NASA Charles Brown, NSA Robert Chadduck, NARA Ronald Ford, DHS Simon Frechette, NIST Helen Gill, NSF

3. Acronyms: NITRD Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program NCO National Coordination Office

4. Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program Legislation • The High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-194) as amended by the • Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-305) and the • America COMPETES Act of 2007 (P.L 110-69)

5. White House Executive Office of the President NITRD Program Structure Office of Science and Technology Policy National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology National Coordination Office (NCO) NITRD Subcommittee High End Computing (HEC I&A - R&D) Cyber Security and Information Assurance High Confidence Software and Systems Social, Economic, and Workforce Human Computer Interaction and Information Management Software Design and Productivity Large Scale Networking

7. National Coordination Office • Objectives: • Serve as the Federal focal point for interagency technical planning, budget planning, and coordination for the Federal NITRD Program • Serve as a source of timely, high-quality, technically accurate, in-depth information on accomplishments, new directions, and critical challenges for the NITRD Program • Support NITRD-related policy making in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

8. PCAST Assessment of the NITRD Program August, 2007

9. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology CO-CHAIRS George Scalise Daniel A. Reed MEMBERS E. Kenneth Nwabueze Luis M. Proenza Hector de Jesus Ruiz John Brooks Slaughter Charles M. Vest F. Duane Ackerman Erich Bloch Raul J. Fernandez Richard H. Herman E. Floyd Kvamme OSTP STAFF LIAISON Charles H. Romine SUBCOMMITTEE STAFF Alan S. Inouye

11. Jan. Mar. Sep. Oct. Feb. Apr. May Aug. Jul. Jun. NITRD Strategic Planning Timeline 2009 Public Workshop Government Workshop Request for Comments Review Draft Concurrence Review Strategic Framework Draft Text Public Comments

12. Characteristics • should speak to policy and decision makers, conveying a sense of the exciting opportunities and broad societal benefits of NIT R&D; • must embrace and support the individual strategic plans of the NITRD agencies; and • should present a compelling vision articulated through a small number of broad themes The Strategic Plan:

13. Strategic Plan Framework • We Compute • Cyber Capable • Trust and Confidence • e4Life

14. Cyber Capable Education and training to ensure that current generations benefit fully from cyber capabilities and to inspire a diverse, next-generation workforce of cyber innovators.

15. Global Classroom

17. Computational Thinking • Conceptualizing, not programming • Fundamental, not rote skill • A way that humans, not computers, think • Complements and combines mathematical and engineering • Ideas, not artifacts • For everyone, everywhere Source: J. Wing, Communications of the ACM Vol. 49, No. 3

18. Trust and Confidence Ensure the value to society of cyber systems is not limited by a lack of trust and confidence; assure that data and resources can be reliably used for their intended purposes.

20. The National Cyber Range will allow classified and unclassified researchers to measure their progress … • …in either a classified or unclassified environment, • …against appropriate threats with sufficient timeliness and accuracy, …to allow corrections and needed new capabilities to be determined.

21. The National Cyber Range will • Provide a dedicated test bed to produce qualitative and quantitative assessments of the security of cyber technologies and scenarios. • Provide a revolutionary, safe, instrumented environment for our national cyber security research organizations to test the security of information systems. • Revolutionize the state of the art of cyber security testing.

22. We Compute Harness new levels of intelligence, intuition and awareness emerging as greater than the sum of the parts in the union of cyber, human, and social capabilities

23. Google.org - Flu Trends Source: J. Ginsberg, M.H. Mohebbi, R.S. Patel, L. Brammer, M.S. Smolinski, L. Brilliant Nature 457, 1012-1014(19 February 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07634

24. e4Life Expand the capabilities envelope by melding virtual and physical worlds to enhance the quality of life and extend the frontiers of discovery and achievement.

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26. Strategic Plan Framework • We Compute • Cyber Capable • Trust and Confidence • e4Life

27. Energy & Environment Education Security & Defense Economy Health Emergent Cognition Trust & Confidence Beyond Virtual Cyber Capable Information Connectivity Computing

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