The U.S. should continue to make funding for information and...
The U.S. should continue to make funding for information and communications technology (ICT) research a national priority, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) said in comments submitted Friday to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Federal research…
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money for ICT research programs, especially the federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program, are “critical to buffer and offset the decline of private research funding during periods of financial crisis,” TIA said. Any decrease in federal funding for such programs would compound damage already done to the ICT research ecosystem, TIA said. “While the U.S. still boasts the strongest research ecosystem in the world, we are beginning to see signs of erosion as competing nations take strong steps to attract ICT research to build innovation-based economies,” TIA said. Greater coordination among the different federal research programs will need to increase as ICT further integrates into different economic sectors, TIA said (http://xrl.us/bnotap).