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Grand Challenges: Science, Engineering, and Societal Advances, Requiring Networking and Information Technology Research and Development

Published by NCO NITRD | Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2006-11-01
...the U.S. Government makes critical decisions about appropriate investments in IT R and D to help society forward both socially and economically. To inform that decision-making, in July of 2003, a group of leading Government technical program managers who participate in the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development NITRD Program completed their formulation of 16 illustrative science, engineering, and societal grand challenges...

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