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PRESIDENT’S INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE INTERIM REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT August, 1998 National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 690 Arlington, VA 22230 (703) 306-4722  TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter of Transmittal 3 Members of the Advisory Committee 4 Executive Summary 6 1. Information Technology: Transforming our Society 11 2. Setting Federal Research Priorities: Findings and Recommendations 16 2.1 Findings 16 2.2 Recommendations for Research 18 3. Research Focal Points and Societal Implications 20 3.1 Software Research 20 3.1.1 Findings 20 3.1.2 Recommendations 22 3.1.3 Make fundamental software research an absolute priority 24 3.2 Scalable Information Infrastructure 24 3.2.1 Findings 25 3.2.2 Recommendations 26 3.3 High-End Computing 27 3.3.1 Findings 29 3.3.2 Recommendations 30 3.4 Societal, Economic, and Workforce Impacts 33 3.4.1 Socio-Economic Issues 33 3.4.2 Socio-Economic Recommendations 34 3.4.3 IT Workforce Issues 35 3.4.4 IT Workforce Recommendations 36 4. New Federal Research Initiatives: Support and Implementation 37 4.1 Findings 37 4.2 Recommendations for New and Diverse Modes of Funding 37 4.2.1 Diversify the modes of research support to include more projects of broader scope and longer duration 37 Fund virtual centers for Expeditions into the 21st Century 38 Establish a program of Enabling Technology Centers 39 5. New Federal Research Initiatives: Creating an Effective Management Structure 42 5.1 Managing Long-term Research 42 5.1.1 Lead Federal Agency for Coordinating Information Technologies Research 43 5.2 Coordinating Long-term Research 43 5.2.1 Expand current coordination mechanisms 43 5.3 Annual Review 43 5.3.1 Comprehensive annual review 43 6. Conclusion 45 PRESIDENT’S INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE August 6, 1998 The President of the United States The White