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IP: Update on NGI funding
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:01:28 -0400
From: "Van Eyck, Laila" <VanEyckL () NASULGC NCHE EDU>
Subject: CGA News update on NGI To: CGA-NEWS () UMDD UMD EDU ************************************************************************ CGA NEWS Compiled by the Office of Federal Relations-Higher Education National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (http://www.nasulgc.nche.edu <http://www.nasulgc.nche.edu> ) Jerry Roschwalb, Director Laila Van Eyck, Assistant Director Katrina Briscoe, Administrative Assistant Jacquie Stokel, Intern CGA NEWS-UPDATE ON: NEXT GENERATION INTERNET Issue: Two bills have been introduced in the House and the Senate that will amend the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 to authorize the Next Generation Internet initiative, a governmental program to build advanced computer networks. President Clinton has requested $110 million to fund the inter-agency program in FY 99. Congressional Subcommittees: Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, House Committee on Science and Committee on National Security Funding Agencies: DARPA, DOE, NASA, NIST, NIH, NSF Status of Legislation: The NGI authorization bill in the Senate is S. 1609, introduced by Senator Frist (R-TN). This bill has passed the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and is awaiting floor action. The NGI authorization bill in the house is H.R. 3332, introduced by Rep. Sensenbrenner, (R-WI). This bill was referred to the House Science committee, but no hearings have taken place yet. A mark-up of this bill is expected in the next few weeks. The National Security Committee has also requested referral. Background: It is estimated that by the year 2000, more than half of the U.S. population will have access to the Internet. The current Internet is overly congested and unable to reliably support important multi-media applications used for research, teaching and outreach. As a result, the Federal government, businesses, and the higher education community are developing advanced networking technologies and new revolutionary applications. The NGI initiative is a multi-agency research and development program by the Federal government to address the needs of the 21st century Internet. Vice-president Gore introduced the NGI initiative in October 1996. Last summer, the agencies released an inter-agency implementation report. The goals of NGI are to improve networking standards in the following three areas: 1. Network Research and Development 2. Networking Testbeds 3. Research Applications Appropriations: Last year, Congress appropriated approximately $95 million to NGI for FY98. This year, President Clinton has requested approximately $110 million for the NGI initiative in his FY99 budget. The funds were distributed to various federal agencies as follows: * DARPA-$40 million * DOE-$22 million * NASA-$10 million * NIST-$5 million * NIH-$5 million * NSF-$25 million 4/20/98 --Laila Van Eyck and Jacqualine Stokel, NASULGC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Whitacre Research Development Officer Office of Research University of California, Santa Barbara 93106 Phone: 805/893-3925; FAX: 805/893-2611; http://research.ucsb.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- End Included Message -----
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