[Infowarrior] - RFC: Federal Plan for Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development

[Richard Forno]

http://www.nitrd.gov/

Public comment on the Plan is welcome during a two-week comment period.
Please send any comments to csia-plan-comments at nitrd.gov before April 28,
2006.

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), a Cabinet-level Council
that coordinates science and technology policies across the Federal
Government, today released the Federal Plan for Cyber Security and
Information Assurance Research and Development. This report sets out a
framework for multi-agency coordination of Federal R&D investments in
technologies that can better secure the interconnected computing systems,
networks, and information that together make up the U.S. information
technology (IT) infrastructure.

³This country¹s IT infrastructure ­ which includes not only the public
Internet but also the networking and IT systems that control critical
infrastructures ranging from power grids to emergency communications systems
­ is vital not only to our national and homeland security but to our
economic security,² said John H. Marburger III, Science Adviser to the
President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. ³This
report provides a blueprint for coordination of Federal R&D across agencies
that will maximize the impact of investments in this key area of the
national interest.²

The Federal Plan for Cyber Security and Information Assurance outlines
strategic objectives for coordinated Federal R&D in cyber security and
information assurance (CSIA). The Plan presents a broad range of CSIA R&D
technical topics and identifies those topics that are multi-agency technical
and funding priorities. The Plan¹s findings and recommendations address R&D
priority-setting, coordination, fundamental R&D, emerging technologies,
roadmapping, and metrics. Together with commentaries about the CSIA R&D
technical topics that describe their significance, the current state of the
art, and gaps in current capabilities, these elements provide a baseline for
implementing the Plan¹s recommendations.

The Plan was prepared by the Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Cyber
Security and Information Assurance (CSIA), whose members represent more than
20 government organizations. The CSIA IWG operates under the auspices of the
NSTC¹s Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Subcommittee on Networking and
Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD). The Federal Plan
for Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development is
available on the NITRD Program Web site: http://www.nitrd.gov/.

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