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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Posts Tagged ‘NITRD

 

2015 PCAST Review of NITRD released to White House and Congress

August 12th, 2015 / in Announcements, pipeline, policy, Research News / by Helen Wright

In December 2010 and then again in December 2012, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) conducted an extensive review of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program – the $4B coordinated multi-agency IT R&D program. PCAST has just released a 2015 follow-up report on the progress of the NITRD program, which was conducted by co-chairs of the PCAST NITRD Working Group Susan Graham (PCAST Member and UC Berkeley) and Greg Hager (Johns Hopkins University and the Computing Community Consortium Chair). Other PCAST NITRD Working Group Members included, William J. Dally (Stanford University), Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research), Sara Kiesler (Carnegie-Mellon University), Michael McQuade (United Technologies […]

CCC Community Report for a National Privacy Research Strategy

May 11th, 2015 / in Announcements, CCC, pipeline, policy, Research News / by Helen Wright

In April, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) commissioned members of the privacy research community to generate a short report to help guide strategic thinking in this space. The effort aimed to complement and synthesize other recent documents, including the White House BIG DATA: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values Report and the Report to the President on Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective. Today, the CCC is releasing the resultant community report, Towards a Privacy Research Roadmap for the Computing Community: Great advances in computing and communication technology are bringing many benefits to society, with transformative changes and financial opportunities being created in health care, transportation, education, law enforcement, national security, […]

NITRD RFI- Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan

April 29th, 2015 / in Announcements, NSF, pipeline, policy / by Helen Wright

In response to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, federal agencies are developing a Federal cybersecurity research and development strategic plan. On behalf of the agencies, the NITRD Cybersecurity R&D Senior Steering Group seeks public input on research objectives for the strategic plan. The strategic plan will be used to guide and coordinate federally-funded cybersecurity research. Responses must be 25 pages or less and are due by June 19, 2015 to cybersecurity@nitrd.gov. For more information, please see the RFI’s link on the Federal Register.  Responders are asked to answer one or more of the following questions:   1. Section 201 (a)(1) of the Act identifies a number of cybersecurity objectives. What scientific, […]

National Coordination Office for NITRD Seeks Director

October 8th, 2014 / in Announcements / by Ann Drobnis

The National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program seeks a Director. The NCO Director oversees all aspects of the NCO, providing executive and technical leadership, management, and oversight of the NCO staff in order to meet the NCO mission.  The Director also leads communication and coordination on NITRD issues among and between federal agencies and external stakeholders, and serves as a national spokesperson for the NITRD.  As a member of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) staff, the NCO Director provides advice to senior OSTP staff on issues relating to NIT R&D. Individuals interested in serving in this […]

Request for Information (RFI)-National Privacy Research Strategy

September 24th, 2014 / in Announcements, policy, Research News / by Helen Wright

Agencies of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program are planning to develop a joint National Privacy Research Strategy. On behalf of the agencies, the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development Senior Steering Group seeks public input on the vital privacy objectives that should be considered for the goals of the strategy. The National Privacy Research Strategy will be used to guide federally-funded privacy research and provide a framework for coordinating research and development in privacy-enhancing technologies. Responders are asked to answer one or more questions in the following areas: Privacy objectives Assessment capabilities Multi-disciplinary approach Privacy architectures All submissions must be 20 pages […]