The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) subcommittee on Future Advanced Computing Ecosystems just released a new report on Pioneering The Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem. It lays out a strategic plan that envisions a future in which an “advanced computing ecosystem provides the foundation for continuing American leadership in science and engineering, economic competitiveness, and national security.”
The plan outlines the following strategic objectives:
- Utilize the future advanced computing ecosystem as a strategic resource spanning government, academia, nonprofits, and industry.
- Establish an innovative, trusted, verified, usable, and sustainable software and data ecosystem.
- Support foundational, applied, and translational research and development to drive the future of advanced computing and its applications.
- Expand the diverse, capable, and flexible workforce that is critically needed to build and sustain the advanced computing ecosystem.
In addition, “the plan promotes and supports the availability, integrity, and security of critical advanced computing components in the international software and hardware supply chains.” This is also stressed in the recently published Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Quadrennial Papers on A Research Ecosystem for Secure Computing by Nadya Bliss (Arizona State University), Lawrence A. Gordon (University of Maryland), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University), Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah), and Fred Schneider (Cornell University). In today’s world tech developers are more focused on the capabilities of the technology rather than the security. This paper stresses the importance of prioritizing security in the design phase and identifies specific focus areas for research and funding that touch on transition and adoption, training/education, and incentive structures for better security.
Read the Pioneering The Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem report here and the Research Ecosystem for Secure Computing paper here.
