In support of the Administration’s R&D priorities in strategic computing, National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Fast-Track Action Committee (FTAC) on Strategic Computing (SC), Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) is requesting public input to the update for the Strategic Computing R&D goals and approaches.
These goals and approaches will help ensure continued U.S. leadership and support the advanced networking and IT capabilities for America. Responders are asked to answer one or more of the following questions in the responses to the RFI:
- What are emerging and future scientific and technical challenges and opportunities that are central to ensuring American leadership in SC, and what are effective mechanisms for addressing these challenges?
- What are appropriate models for partnerships between government, academia and industry in SC, and how can these partnerships be effectively leveraged to advance the objectives of SC?
- How do we develop and nurture the capable workforce with the necessary skill and competencies to ensure American leadership in SC? What are effective nontraditional approaches to lowering the barriers to knowledge transfer?
- How can technical advances in SC and other large government and private initiatives, including infrastructure advances, provide new knowledge and mechanisms for executing next generation research?
- What are the future national-level use cases that will drive new computing paradigms, and how will new computing paradigms yield new use cases?
- What areas of research or topics of the 2016 NSCI Strategic Plan should continue to be a priority for federally funded research and require continued Federal R&D investments? What areas of research or topics of the 2016 Strategic Plan no longer need to be prioritized for federally funded research?
- What challenges or objectives not included in the 2016 NSCI Strategic Plan should be strategic priorities for the federally funded SC R&D? Discuss what new capabilities would be desired, what objectives should guide such research, and why those capabilities and objective should be strategic priorities.
Please provide NITRD your feedback to the Federal Register Notice (84 FR 28338) on ways to enhance future computing R&D. Comments must be submitted on or before 11:59 p.m. (ET) on August 23, 2019.
