Networking And Information Technology Research And Development

This annual report on the multi-agency Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) Program describes activities funded by Federal NITRD agencies in the areas of advanced networking and information technologies and offers a brief technical outline of the 2006 budget request for the NITRD Program in the following major research areas: high-end computing applications and infrastructure; high-end computing R&D; large-scale networking; human-computer interaction and information management; high-confidence software and systems; software design and productivity; and social, economic, and workforce implications of IT and IT workforce development.

Contents: (1) Overview, Structure and Funding of NITRD:: Amer. Recovery and Reinvest. Act of 2009; Amer. Competitiveness Initiative; NCO, PITAC, and Related Reports and Activities: National Cyber Leap Year Summit; High-Confidence Medical Devices: Cyber-Physical Systems for 21st Cent. Health Care; Digital Data for Science and Society; Fed. Plan for Advanced Networking R&D; Info. Tech. R&D in a Competitive World; Fed. Plan for Cyber Security and Info. Assurance R&D; NSA Superconducting Tech. Assessment; Computational Science; Cyber Security; NITRD Enabling and Governing Legislation: High-Performance Computing Act of 1991; Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998; (2) Fed. Tech. Funding. Illus.