The National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and Information
Technology Research and Development (NITRD) has released, "Networking
and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program:
Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Overview." 
(see:
http://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/2008supplement/NITRD_Interim_08Supp.pdf) 
 
This Fiscal Year 2008 NITRD budget overview is an interim document; the
full NITRD Supplement to the President's 2008 Budget will be published
when 2007 budget estimates are finalized. This latter document is the
Supplement to the President of the United State's Fiscal Year 2008
Budget for networking and information technology research and
development.
 
"Now in its 16th year, the NITRD Program represents the coordinated
efforts of Federal agencies - 14 member agencies plus informal
participants - that support R&D in advanced computing, networking, cyber
security, software, and other information technologies. These key
technologies power Federal agency missions, help maintain U.S.
leadership in science, technology, and engineering, and support the
Nation's economic competitiveness."
 
Archivists and records managers have long talked about the need to draw
the attention of resource allocators to the need to address long term
preservation and management of electronic records. The National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) is now a full member of the NITRD
Program. This budget overview reflects archival concerns for long term
preservation and access to important digital collections.
 
Here are a few highlights from the document:
 
Page 1:
 
"Notable NITRD Program highlights of the past year include the addition
of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) as new member agencies."
 
Page 3:
 
"Human Computer Interaction and Information Management (HCI&IM)
Members: NSF, OSD and DoD Service research organizations, NIH, DARPA,
NASA, NIST, AHRQ, NOAA,
EPA, DHS, NARA. Other participants: DTO, GSA."
 
"2008 priorities: Next-generation methods, technologies, and tools for
integrating massive, distributed,
heterogeneous forms of information to support complex human analysis
and timely decision-making (key issues
include information standards, decision-support tools, and LONG-TERM
MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF COMPLEX COLLECTIONS); multimodal
interfaces and data; cognitive systems. Budget highlights include:"
(EMPHASIS ADDED)
 
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". Multimodal language recognition and translation: Multilingual
language technologies in speech-to-text
transcription, two-way communications translation, text retrieval,
automatic content extraction, speaker and
language recognition, multimodal interfaces, usability - DARPA, NIST,
NSF, DTO, NARA, other agencies.

. Information integration, accessibility, and management: Secure
management; modeling, integration, analysis,
and visualization techniques and tools; ontologies and metadata; data
access and transmission; integration,
exploitation of heterogeneous data; image understanding - NSF, ARL,
ONR, NIH, NASA, NIST, AHRQ,
NOAA, EPA, NARA."
 
Mark Conrad
Electronic Records Archives (ERA)
NHE, Room 1540
The National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
 
Phone: 301-837-0924
Fax: 301-837-0394
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ERA Website: www.archives.gov/electronic_records_archives

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