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== Organization ==

The NITRD Program is managed by the NITRD Subcommittee of the [[National_Science_and_Technology_Council | National Science and Technology Council]]’s (NSTC) Committee on Technology and supported by the NITRD National Coordination Office (NCO).

===Working Groups===

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===Program Component Areas===

The annual NITRD Supplement to the President’s Budget is organized by Program Component Areas (PCAs), where the PCAs are major subject areas for federal IT R&D. PCAs are intended to facilitate budgetary comparisons from year to year in each area. The PCA set evolves over time, reflecting changes in IT R&D activities at federal agencies and IT R&D priorities of the Administration.<ref>https://www.nitrd.gov/subcommittee/NITRD-PCAs.aspx</ref>. In its first annual report to Congress, the Supplement to the President’s Fiscal Year 1992 Budget, HPCC reported a FY 1991 base budget of $489 million, with eight federal agencies participating, and four R&D components. The FY 2019 NITRD Supplement to the President’s Budget reports to Congress an estimated budget of $5.2B billion across 24 Federal agencies and 11 R&D focus areas.

=== Participating agencies ===

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== History and legal background ==

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program (formerly known as High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program) was created by the [[High Performance Computing Act of 1991]], (P.L. 102-194)<ref>[https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/272/text High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P.L. 102-194)]</ref> and amended by the Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-305) ,<ref>https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/105th-congress/senate-report/173/1</ref>, and the America COMPETES (Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science) Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-69).<ref>https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/2272</ref>. NITRD was reauthorized by Congress in the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2017 (P.L. 114-329).<ref>https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3084/text</ref>.

Dr. [[Donald_A.B._Lindberg | Donald A.B. Lindberg]] was the founding Director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for NITRD, formerly the NCO for High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC). The High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 called for the coordination of activities in high-performance computing and the establishment of a National Research and Education Network (NREN) across Federal agencies. Dr. Lindberg led this effort from 1992 to 1995 while serving concurrently as the Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

==Directors==

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! Name !! Dates !! Notes

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| [[Donald_A.B._Lindberg | Donald A.B. Lindberg]] || September 1992 - March 1995 ||

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| John C. Toole || March 1995 - July 1997 ||

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| George O. Strawn || November 2009 - June 2015 ||

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| [[Keith_Marzullo | Keith Marzullo]] || June 2015 - July 2016 ||

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| Bryan Biegel || August 2016 - July 2018 ||