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Date: 2001-12-05 07:34:02

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Bills aim at cyber R&amp;D

By Diane Frank, Federal Computer Week, 12/5/2001  http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1203/web-science-12-05-01.asp

Members of the House Science Committee introduced two bills Dec. 4 aimed
at increasing funding and attention for cybersecurity and information
technology research and development.

The Cyber Security Research and Development Act, introduced by the
committee chairman, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.), addresses many of
the security challenges government faces. Those challenges include the
lack of far-reaching security research; too few university students
focused on information security; and the lack of coordination among the
federal agencies, academic institutions and companies.

The act creates several research and grants programs at the National
Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, two agencies long involved in security research and
partnering with the private sector. Funding authorized by the act for
these programs totals almost $880 million across five years and
includes:

* $233 million for a grants program at NSF for innovative research on
basic cybersecurity issues.

* $90 million to establish a competitive grants program through NSF for
universities and colleges to provide fellowships, research opportunities
and other education to students pursuing doctoral degrees in
cybersecurity.

* $275 million for a grant program at NIST for high-risk, cutting-edge
research by academic researchers working with industry.

* $32 million to NIST for an in-house research program in cybersecurity.

"Currently, there are too few scientists and engineers engaged in
research on information security and too little funding for security
research," Rep. Ralph Hall (D-Texas), ranking member on the committee
and co-sponsor of the bill, said at the press conference where the
committee released the two bills. "And as federal agencies and private
industry have found, there are too few people with specialized computer
security skills."

The Networking and Information Technology Research Advancement Act,
sponsored by Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.), chairman of the committee's
Research Subcommittee, increases the funding for IT research and
development at NSF, NIST, NASA, the Energy Department, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection
Agency. The act authorizes almost $7 billion across five years for
programs at those agencies.

To support this increase in funding, the act authorizes the agencies'
continued participation in the Networking and Information Technology
Research and Development Program run by the White House's Office of
Science and Technology Policy. The program coordinates interagency
research in areas including high-end computing, software design and
productivity, high-confidence software and systems, and human/computer
interaction and information management.

"Although the private sector provides the lion's share of the research
funding, its spending tends to focus on short-term, applied research,"
Smith said. "The federal government, therefore, has a critical role to
play in supporting the long-term, basic research that the private sector
requires but is ill-suited to pursue."

The act also updates the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 to
emphasize the importance of cybersecurity research, and directs the
National Academy of Sciences to provide two studies. The first study
will compare the state of IT and engineering research in the United
States with that of other countries, and the second will study how to
strengthen the IT workforce.

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