NITRD 30th Anniversary

May 25, 2022

The International Spy Museum
700 L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC 20024, USA

Overview

On December 22, 2021 the 30th Anniversary of the NITRD program occurred during the height of the pandemic, and accordingly a virtual commemoration was held to celebrate the incredible achievements of the last 30 years while maintaining social distancing measures. While the anniversary has passed we will be hosting an in-person event on May 25th, 2022 to commemorate this milestone.

The United States has a thriving information technology innovation ecosystem that uniquely integrates expertise and resources spanning the Federal Government, academia, and private industry. In 1991, Congress recognized the importance of this innovation ecosystem and the associated advances in networking and information technology research and development by passing the High Performance Computing Act. That Act established the High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program, the predecessor to today’s NITRD program. In the years since, the HPCC and NITRD programs have enabled multi-agency coordination of the federal investment in this space.

For more information, please see the NITRD website.

Organizers

Organizers:

Robert Bonneau, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Elizabeth Bradley, CCC and University of Colorado Boulder
Richard Conroy, Office of the Director National Institutes of Health
Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (National Science Foundation)
Kamie Roberts, Director National Coordination Office for NITRD
Charles Romine, Director, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ann Schwartz Drobnis, CCC
Katherine Yelick, Associate Dean for Research, University of California Berkeley
Ben Zorn, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research