Initiative

Lead agencies

a comprehensive lifelong multi-source health record for individuals

NSF and HHS, with participation from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), NIST, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), DoD, and other interested agencies.

a means for professionals and the public to obtain and act on health knowledge from diverse and varied sources as part of an interoperable health IT ecosystem

ditto

information, tools and assistive technologies that empower individuals to take charge of their own health and healthcare and to reduce its cost

ditto

dynamic power management in applications ranging from single devices, to buildings, to the power grid

DoE and NSF

organize the multi-stakeholder formulation of interoperable standards for real-time control of energy and transportation.

NIST

continue to be a major sponsor of research on using network and IT research to achieve low-power systems and devices.

DoD

sponsor ambitious NIT research relevant to surface and air transportation.

DoT

discover more effective ways to build trustworthy computing and communications systems

NSF and DoD, in collaboration with DHS

continue to develop new network and IT defense mechanisms for today's infrastructure

ditto

develop fundamentally new approaches for the design of the underlying architecture of our cyber-infrastructure so that it can be made truly resilient to cyber-attack, natural disaster, and inadvertent failure

ditto

invest in a broad, multi-agency research program on the fundamentals of privacy protection and protected disclosure of confidential data

NSF and DARPA

create a collaborative research program that augments the study of individual human-computer interaction with a comprehensive investigation to understand and advance human-machine and social collaboration and problem-solving in a networked, on-line environment where large numbers of people participate in common activities.

NSF, DARPA and HHS

expand its support for fundamental research in data collection, storage, management, and automated large-scale analysis based on modeling and machine learning.

NSF

increase research in advanced domain-specific sensors, integration of NIT into physical systems, and innovative robotics in order to enhance NIT-enabled inter-action with the physical world.

NSF and DARPA, in collaboration with the EPA, DoE, DoT, additional parts of DoD, NIH, USDA and NOAA