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8 Information Technology Laboratory
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Chapter 8 Information Technology Laboratory
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Nance, this assessment of the fiscal year 1998 activities of the Information Technology Laboratory is based on a site visit by the panel on March 17-19, 199S, and documents provided by the laboratory.
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would be inappropriate; instead, the individual contributions should be acknowledged and appreciated and explained to the community at large in formal mission statements, annual assessments, and day-today behavior. Progress has been made in integrating the collaborative research functions of the Statistical Engineering Division (SED)
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and technology evaluation conferences of the Information Access and User Interfaces Division. In these cases, ~2
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In addition to performing research and providing calibrations and reference data, the Information Technology Laboratory also provides services to the other NIST laboratories. This work is supported through STRS funding designated specifically for the supercomputing facilities and through NIST overhead.
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e overhead to support services provided by the ITL, to all of MIST; and Industrial Technology Services, which includes the Advanced Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. The remainder of the laboratory's funding is Dom other agencies and from sales and services related to reference materials produced by the laboratory.
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It also adds to the work in this same area represented by the Statistical Reference Datasets (StRDs) project being conducted with the SED and the MCSD's ongoing work on the Matrix Market and sparse BLAS (Basic Liner Algebra Sub~roaramsl.
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Such outreach takes time away trom other ongoing work, and its oenents might take time to accrue. But over time, it would likely lead to stronger support of the division by other laboratories and ITL divisions and to a more varied set of collaborative projects as well.
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1 Staffing for the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division currently includes 30 -time permanent positions, of which 28 are for technical professionals. There are also ~ 5 nonpermanent and supplemental personnel, such as postdoctoral fellows and part-time workers.
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Each of the division's projects involves at least one of the above activities. Technical Merit and Appropriateness of Work The Advanced Network Technologies Division is performing state-of-the-art research in many areas.
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c .lvlslons. Resources Funding sources for the Advanced Network Technologies Division (in millions of dollars)
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Nevertheless, care must be taken to ensure there is no adverse impact on the primary mission because of OA demands. Computer Security Division Mission The mission of the Computer Security Division is to enable organizations and individuals to use information technology with the assurance and trust that the confidentiality, integrity, reliability, and availability of resources are protected.
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, specification-based testing and evaluation through accredited laboratories, crypto module validation, National Information Assurance Partnership MAPS, Common Criteria (CC) , internetworking security through the IPsec standard, key recovery, role-based access controls, Federal Computer Incident Response Capability (FedCIRC)
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5 4.0 Total 1 1.3 9.6 Staffing for the Computer Security Division currently includes 44 fill-time permanent positions, of which 39 are for technical professionals. There are also six nonpermanent and supplemental personnel, such as postdoctoral fellows and part-time workers.
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The pane' supports the continuation of FedCIRC, but if funding for the FedCIRC program is not renewed next year, the division should not attempt to maintain this important service on internal Finds but transition the responsibility to other owners. Information Access and User Interfaces Division Mission The Information Access and User Interfaces Division stated that its mission is to accelerate the development of technologies that allow intuitive manipulation and exchange of, and efficient access to, complex information by facilitating the creation of measurement methods and standards; to coordinate and provide evaluation methodologies, test suites and corpora, prototypes, workshops, and standards and guidelines to enable faster transition into the commercial marketplace in collaboration with industry, academia, and government; and to research technologies such as the digitization and representation of multimedia data, the use of spoken and written natural language, and visual interactive modalities for search and presentation of that information.
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The group collaborated with the Spoken Natural Language Processing Group to develop a state-ofthe-art voice-actuated document-retrieval system. The face and fingerprint recognition work in the Visual Image Processing Group is very good and is leading to standards that are being adopted by law enforcement agencies.
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These resources are sufficient for effective execution of all the programs in the division. High Performance Systems and Services Division Mission The High Performance Systems and Services Division (HPSSD)
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, pattern recognition, and photonic interconnection for wireless communication projects fit within the division mission. The Photonic Interconnect project, in fact, seems a better fit to the Advanced Network Technologies Division.
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Also, a division stab member was recognized by the Video Electronics Standards Association for his leadership in standards issues relating to digital display interfaces. Resources Funding sources for the High Performance Systems and Services Division (in millions of dollars)
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Distributed Computing and Information Services Division Mission The mission of the Distributed Computing and Information Services Division (DCISD) Is to provide an integrated suite of information technology resources and services that meets the needs of NIST staffin an efficient and effective manner and that provides a sound basis for meeting fixture needs and enabling innovative applications of information technology.
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Staffing for the Distributed Computing and Information Services Division currently includes 62 fi~-time permanent positions, of which 57 are for technical professionals. There are also seven nonpermanent and supplemental personnel, such as postdoctoral fellows and part-time workers.
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· ~ . Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division Mission The mission of the Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division is to develop software testing tools and methods that improve quality, conformance to standards, and correctness; participate with industry in the development of forward-Iooking standards; and lead efforts for conformance testing, even at the early stages of development of standards.
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are presented below: Fiscal Year 1997 Fiscal Year 1998 (estimated) NIST-STRS, 5.2 4.4 excluding Competence Competence 0.0 0.5 ATE 0.3 0.3 OA/NFG/CRADA 1.5 1.9 Other Reimbursable 0.4 0.3 Total 7.4 7.4 ., Staffing for the Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division includes 41 fi~lltime permanent positions, of which 34 are for technical professionals.
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Another important and usefi~} project is the award-winning Statistical Reference Datasets. The purpose of this Web-based service, now in place, is to improve the accuracy of statistical software by providing reference data sets with certified computational results that enable objective evaluation of statistical software.
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~0.0 Total 3.3 3.3 Staffing for the Statistical Engineering Division currently includes 21 fill-time permanent positions, of which 19 are for technical professionals. There are also 10 nonpermanent and supplemental personnel, such as postdoctoral fellows and part-time workers.
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The departure of the SED chief in the past year has led to the appointment of an acting chief Filling this position rapidly with a permanent division chief is essential to staff morale and necessary to accelerate the growth of SED interactions with other ITE divisions.
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