Cyber Security Report Released


The National Research Council of the National Academies of Science released a new report on cyber security and research called “Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace.” The report is available for free online at the National Academies Press. The report lists three broad categories that lack of cyber security falls into: First is the […]

First Senate Appropriations Numbers


The Senate Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations subcommittee and the Senate Energy and Water Development appropriations subcommittee marked up their appropriations bills and, as with the House versions, it appears the science agencies did very well. We don’t yet have all the details, but here are the early numbers: NSF received a total appropriation of […]

CRA NAMES 16 TO FIRST COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM COUNCIL


An announcement from CRA: CRA NAMES 16 TO FIRST COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM COUNCIL WASHINGTON, DC – The Computing Research Association, in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), today announced the membership of the first permanent Council for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). The council will direct and oversee the operations of the CCC as […]

Senate Budget Numbers


The Senate Appropriations committee released their “302(b) allocations” and it looks like science does very well. We previously discussed the House 302(b)’s here and the Senate’s numbers look as good, or better, than the House numbers. The Senate Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee received $54.4 billion, $1 billion more than the House allocation and more than […]

House Science Committee on Globalization of R&D


Just a quick placeholder here…. The House Science and Technology Committee is holding a hearing today on “Globalization of R&D and Innovation.” Here’s the hearing website. CRA has provided written testimony for the hearing record, which you can read here (pdf). We’ll have more when we’re back from the hearing.

Washington Post Op-Ed on DARPA Short-term Thinking


The computing community has had these concerns for quite a while, so it’s not surprising to see other disciplines noting similar issues with DARPA in this OpEd written by David Ignatius in Friday’s Washington Post: DARPA once liked to boast that it took on impossible problems and wasn’t interested in the merely difficult. But in […]