DoE, NSF and WH CyberInfrastructure Reports

Review of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online Intrusion

In May and June 2023, a threat actor compromised the Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes of 22 organizations and over 500 individuals around the world. The actor—known as Storm-0558 and assessed to be affiliated with the People’s Republic of China in pursuit of espionage objectives—accessed the accounts using authentication tokens that were signed by a key Microsoft had created in 2016. This intrusion compromised senior United States government representatives working on national security matters, including the email accounts of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, United States Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China R. Nicholas Burns, and Congressman Don Bacon...

Integrated Research Infrastructure Architecture Blueprint Activity

The complexity of scientific pursuits is increasing rapidly with aspects that require dynamic integration of experiment, observation, theory, modeling, simulation, visualization, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and analysis. Research projects across the Department of Energy (DOE) are increasingly data and compute intensive. Innovative research teams are accelerating the pace of discovery by using high-performance computational and data tools in their research workflows and leveraging multiple research infrastructures...

5G Enabled Energy Innovation: Advanced Wireless Networks for Science (Workshop Report)

Rapidly expanding, new telecommunications infrastructure based on 5G technologies will disrupt and transform how we design, build, operate, and optimize scientific infrastructure and the experiments and services enabled by that infrastructure, from continental-scale sensor networks to centralized scientific user facilities, from intelligent Internet of Things devices to supercomputers. Concurrently, 5G will introduce, or exacerbate, challenges related to protecting infrastructure and associated scientific data as well as to fully leveraging opportunities related to expanded infrastructure scale and complexity...

Strengthening and Democratizing the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Innovation Ecosystem

This final report of the NAIRR Task Force presents a roadmap and implementation plan for a national cyberinfrastructure aimed at overcoming the access divide, reaping the benefits of greater brainpower and more diverse perspectives and experiences applied to developing the future of AI technology and its role in our society.

NSF Public Access Plan 2.0: Ensuring Open, Immediate and Equitable Access to National Science Foundation Funded Research

NSF’s updated public access plan integrates new agency guidance issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in August of 2022. This guidance, which includes zero-embargo public access for research publications and their supporting data, was developed with leadership from the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Open Science, in which NSF has always been actively engaged.

Advanced Research Directions on AI for Science, Energy, and Security.

Report on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Summer 2022 Workshop Series on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science, Energy, and Security...

Cybersecurity Considerations for Distributed Energy Resources on the U.S. Electric Grid.

As such, this report provides an overview of cybersecurity considerations that should be considered by the electric sector, including utilities and distributed energy resources (DER) operators, providers, integrators, developers, and vendors (collectively, “the DER industry”), as well as policymakers as we embark on this transformational change to the U.S. electric grid. This report is not meant to be a comprehensive review of cybersecurity considerations in the DER industry, but rather encourage a dialogue and further conversations between industry and government stakeholders.

A Strategic Vision for America's Quantum Networks.

From Long-distance Entanglement to Building a Nationwide Quantum Internet: Report of the DOE Quantum Internet Blueprint Workshop.

AI for Science

From July to October 2019, the Argonne, Oak Ridge, and Berkeley National Laboratories hosted a series of four town hall meetings attended by more than 1,000 U.S. scientists and engineers. The goal of the town hall series was to examine scientific opportunities in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and high-performance computing (HPC) in the next decade, and to capture the big ideas, grand challenges, and next steps to realizing these opportunities.

Quantum Networks for Open Science Workshop

Basic Research Needs for Scientific Machine Learning Core Technologies for Artificial Intelligence

The report summarizes the outcomes of a January 2018 basic research needs (BRN) workshop, which identified six Priority Research Directions (PRDs) for Advanced Scientific Computing Re- search (ASCR) in developing greater SciML-based capabilities for DOE mission challenges. The workshop considered the status, recent trends, and broad use of SciML. This information then was used to examine the opportunities, barriers, and potential for high scientific impact through fundamental advances in its mathematical, statistical, and computational research foundations.

The Networking & Information Technology Research & Development Program

FY2019 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap

This document provides FY2019 implementation details for the 2016 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan, pursuant to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, Public Law 113-274. It lists key Federal projects and programs that directly contribute to solving the cybersecurity challenges outlined in the 2016 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan. This document accompanies the NITRD Supplement to the President’s FY2019 Budget Request, available at https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/FY2019-NITRD-Supplement.pdf.

Rethinking NSF’s Computational Ecosystem for 21st Century Science and Engineering (Workshop Report)

This report summarizes the discussions from a workshop convened at NSF on May 30-31, 2018 in Alexandria, VA. The overarching objective of the workshop was to rethink the nature and composition of the NSF-supported computational ecosystem given changing application requirements and resources and technology landscapes. The workshop included roughly 50 participants, drawn from high-performance computing (HPC) centers, campus computing facilities, cloud service providers (academic and commercial), and distributed resource providers. Participants spanned both large research institutions and smaller universities.

Smart High-Performance Networks; Towards New Generation Intelligent Networking Infrastructure for Distributed Science Environments

The vision for a “smart network” combines the programmability and ease of automation enabled by SDN technologies with AI technologies to realize network infrastructures that are self-aware, self-managing, and self-healing. The ultimate goal is a smart network infrastructure that can monitor itself, diagnose and resolve problems, defend itself from cyber-attacks, and provide intelligent services to scientists. To address these issues the DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Smart High- Performance Networks workshop brought together network researchers and operators from national laboratories, academia, and industry. The core of the workshop discussions were organized around four key technical topic areas; Smart Network Infrastructures, Smart Applications, AI-Based Technology for Smart Networked Systems, and Smart Cyber Security Sub-systems. Here workshop materials.

Report of the NSF Workshop on Software Defined Infrastructures and Software Defined Exchanges.

Software-defined infrastructure and software-defined exchanges (SDXes) have the potential to affect the way that we design not only those systems, but the fundamental architecture of the Internet itself. The purpose of this workshop was to identify transformative research problems that must be solved before this vision can be realized, with an eye towards research in the 2020–2025 timeframe. It also looked at infrastructure projects that could help to catalyze this research. Here workshop materials.

Looking Beyond the Internet Steering Group Final Report

Technology and the Future of Cities

This report complements and goes beyond the ideas captured by the label, “Smart Cities, ” identifying opportunities to improve people’s lives both by modernizing key infrastructures (such as for energy, water, or transportation) and by using information technology (often with open data) to enhance city operations and services.

Applications and Services in the Year 2021

Today’s digital infrastructure is undergoing deep technological changes and new paradigms are rapidly taking shape in both the core and edge domains. These paradigms leverage the growing footprint of ultra- high-speed broadband networks, pervasive wireless, cloud computing, and software-defined infrastructure. Moreover, they are positioned to connect smart/mobile devices, as well as their data on a massive scale. These advances will enable transformative applications and services in the decade beginning in 2021 that will enhance the quality of peoples’ lives while addressing important national priorities. In addition, these new technologies may bridge and unite today’s cutting edge applications such as the Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics, Robotics, The Industrial Internet, and Immersive Virtual/Augmented Reality, yielding applications that are not obvious or even possible at this time.