The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has officially awarded CCC’s renewal proposal for four more years of visioning work. 

The renewal means CCC’s visioning activities with the computing research community will continue, supporting the evolving field through 2030 on this new grant.

CCC’s Mission

What are the next big computing research challenges — the ones that will define the future of the field, galvanize researchers, and spark investment and public support?

CCC mobilizes the computing research community to address these challenges. Since 2006, CCC has served as a bridge between computing experts across disciplines and sectors, convening them for visioning activities where they are asked to not only envision the future of computing, but also the path there. These collaborative efforts between academia, industry, and government — and the reports, white papers, and other resources that result from them — leverage the collective expertise of the field to set long-term computing research trajectories in motion and address emerging national and global challenges. 

What to Expect Over the Next Four Years

• Visioning workshops. These invitation-based, multi-day workshops assemble a group of experts around a specific research frontier. Topics originate from the CCC Council or from the community through CCC’s visioning proposal process. We encourage any member of the computing research community to submit a proposal!
• Reports, briefs, and white papers. CCC reports and briefs bring the findings of those workshops to the community. The recommendations within them inform researchers, industry folks, and policymakers about the focused work and funding required to serve the future goals of the field. CCC white papers do similar work, providing community-based expertise and recommendations without pulling from a fully-fledged workshop effort.
• Responses to federal Requests for Information (RFIs). When federal agencies release RFIs on computing research priorities, the CCC Council, working with CRA Government Affairs, submits a consolidated response. This is one of the most direct paths for community expertise to inform federal policy.
• Community Chats. CCC’s webinar series brings report authors, workshop organizers, and subject matter experts into conversation with a broad audience. These Community Chats span wide ranges of subjects within computing, are open to everyone, and are recorded for later viewing.
• Medium posts. CCC’s presence on Medium brings big computing questions to light. Expect accessible writing on computing findings and emerging topics.
• Blue Sky track sponsorships. CCC sponsors Blue Sky Ideas tracks at conferences across computing research, creating space for visionary and forward-looking papers. Sponsorship includes travel support for winning authors.

Get Involved

Two CCC projects are already on the books under this new award. These include our upcoming Full Stack Sustainability: From Silicon to Software workshop in Austin, TX — co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society — as well as an open Community Chat on October 8, 2026 called Powering the Solution: Balancing Computing’s Energy Demands with its Contributions to Sustainability (register here). Additional future visioning topics in the works include agentic AI for hardware design and quantum computing.

CCC strongly encourages members of the computing community to subscribe here and follow the CCC LinkedIn Showcase page to stay in the loop about our latest resources, events, and ways to get involved. For individual expert perspectives and commentary on computing that may not fit in a workshop report, follow CCC on Medium.

CCC looks forward to another four years of visioning with the inspiring computing research community!