NITRD News: August 22, 2024

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The official newsletter for the Networking and Informational Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program

MESSAGE FROM THE NITRD NCO DIRECTOR

Greetings from the NCO Team.

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Additionally, we are pleased to announce that Dr. Manil Maskey, Senior Research Scientist and Program Manager at National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has been named as the new Big Data Interagency Working Group (IWG) co-chair. He joins Amy Walton with the National Science Foundation and succeeds Laura Biven with the National Institutes of Health. Please join us in welcoming Manil to this new leadership role within the NITRD Program.

Sincerely,

Dr. Craig Schlenoff
Director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program

NEWS & EVENTS

Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New AI Actions and Receives Additional Major Voluntary Commitment on AI

Nine months ago, President Biden issued a landmark Executive Order to ensure that America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI). This Executive Order built on the voluntary commitments he and Vice President Harris received from 15 leading U.S. AI companies last year. The administration announced that Apple has signed onto the voluntary commitments, further cementing these commitments as cornerstones of responsible AI innovation.

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The 2024 IMAG Multiscale Modeling Consortium Meeting

The meeting aims to create a community of expertise from academia, industry, medicine, and government to promote, empower, and facilitate the understanding, collaboration, creation of tools and infrastructure for biomedical digital twins (BDT) through informational talks coupled with interactive team building exercises.

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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

Advancing International Collaboration in Quantum Information Science and Technology

International cooperation is a vital component of the U.S. strategy for QIS. It accelerates innovation, facilitates robust access to supply chains and markets, and guides the development of QIST-related principles, policies, and effective practices in the international community. This report makes recommendations for the U.S. Government to address an overarching goal of enabling international cooperation in QIST that imparts mutual benefits and that prioritizes shared values, scientific purpose, and economic promise.

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COORDINATION HIGHLIGHT AREA

Privacy Research and Development Interagency Working Group (IWG)

The Privacy R&D Interagency Working Group (IWG) coordinates Federal R&D aimed at preventing adverse privacy effects arising from information processing, including R&D of privacy-protecting information systems and standards. This R&D supports advances in large-scale data analytics that can improve healthcare, eliminate barriers to education and employment, and increase efficiencies in the transportation and financial sectors while minimizing risks to individual privacy and possible harms such as discrimination, loss of autonomy, and economic losses.

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DOCUMENTS COMING SOON

The NITRD Program is currently working on the following document that will be coming out soon:

National Spectrum R&D Plan

RESOURCES

ABOUT NITRD

NITRD is the Nation’s primary source of federally funded R&D in advanced IT in computing, networking and software. Learn more here.

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AGENCY PARTNERS

Reporting directly to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program is the United States’ primary source of federally funded research and development (R&D) in advanced information technologies in computing, networking and software. The NITRD Program coordinates the activities of multiple agencies to tackle multidisciplinary, multitechnology, and multisector R&D needs.

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