A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This episode of the podcast was recorded live at the “This Study Shows” Sci-Mic stage at the 2020 AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Khari Douglas interviews Dr. John Beieler, a former program manager at IARPA and currently the Director of Science and Technology in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In this episode they discuss working in national security and the technical challenges the intelligence community is facing. You can stream the episode in the embedded player below or find it on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Blubrry | […]

The Director of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program is pleased to share the link for the updated Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan (2019)! This plan provides guidance and defines priorities for Federal agencies that are involved in cybersecurity R&D, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence, quantum information science, trustworthy distributed digital infrastructure, privacy, secure hardware and software, and education and workforce development. Notably, the updated plan highlights the need to understand the human aspects of cybersecurity; provide effective and efficient risk management; develop effective and efficient methods for deterring and countering malicious cyber activities; develop integrated safety-security-privacy framework and methodologies; and improve […]

Recently, the White House posted a Request for Information (RFI) inviting suggestions for improvements to Federal data and models needed to accelerate AI R&D and testing. See below for more details. Your responses, and/or those of your organization, would be valuable and much appreciated. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2019 Trump Administration Takes Action to Improve Federal Data and Models for Artificial Intelligence R&D Recently, the Trump Administration continued efforts to advance American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) with the announcement of a Request for Information (RFI) to improve Federal data and models for AI research and development (R&D) and testing. As called for by President Trump’s national AI strategy […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will be sponsoring a visioning activity on Sociotechnical Cybersecurity. As a part of this effort, the workshop organizing committee has released a call for white papers in order to both assist us in organizing the workshop and in selecting attendees. Authors of informative and well-crafted white papers may be invited to the Sociotechnical Cybersecurity workshop. Read the full call for proposals below: Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Workshop Call For White Papers We are holding two CCC-sponsored workshops, on December 12th-13th and in the first half of 2017, with the goal of developing a small set of grand challenges to set research directions for the discipline of cybersecurity, with the understanding that […]