An Assessment of Selected Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2021 (2021) / Chapter Skim
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3 Software and Systems Division
3 Software and Systems Division
Pages 14-23
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The Federated Testing Project aids laboratories with a method to test tools (e.g., forensic string search, mobile forensic data extraction) and facilitates the sharing of tool test reports that follow the SSD test protocol with the forensics community.
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With the growing importance of static code analysis as part of a routine software development practice, resuming the pace of regular SATE tool exposition events guided by SSD can be beneficial. The tool assessment could also benefit from a more quantitative approach, using measurable benchmarks for static analysis tools.
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A main reason for a highly accurate synchronized method of time is to provide highly accurate data collection that can be correlated from different sensors and actuators. This highly accurate time synchronization will support reliable and accurate analysis of events, accurate real-time actuation of controls across highly distributed embedded systems, and efficient data communications across a complex networked system.
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The Systems Interoperability Group develops advanced testing infrastructures and contributes to standards development for ensuring the robustness and interoperability of health information technology (IT) systems, thus removing technical obstacles to implementation and interoperability and accelerating the adoption of cost-effective health IT.
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Consistent with SSD's identification of support for smart health care as a target for expansion of SSD competence and scope among issues within the National Security Commission on AI report,8 such an effort could tie together work in privacy, IoT, AI methods, and more with systems interoperability. During the past decade, CMS has supported innovation by establishing the CMS Innovation Center, which oversees a portfolio testing various payment and service delivery models designed to achieve better care for patients, smarter spending, and healthier communities.9 Consideration might be given to the value of having such an explicitly designed and operated unit within SSD to achieve the goals of influencing health care system quality and cost in a way that is not occurring or likely to occur given the current activities.
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Trustworthiness and interpretability of machine learning and artificial intelligence is also a topic worthy of attention. For AI applications, the choices of natural language processing (NLP)
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This has a substantial impact on the SSD science mission through the team's close collaboration with internal SSD stakeholders in materials science and biology that use its software. The team's current work on the development of an abstraction layer aimed at improving the productivity of HPC software developers for this domain is well-thought out, with the data flow design informed by members' experience in image processing.
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Nimbleness/agility for new approaches was identified by SSD as a core competency for staff. SSD targeted six issues within the National Security Commission on AI report as plausible areas for expansion of SSD competence and scope -- big data, massive information, and large knowledge bases; innovative approaches to software quality; support for smart health care; engineering biology; mobile computing; and cyber-physical social systems.
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Existing projects in several areas are outgrowing current computational resources. For example, for IoT, expressed needs include a common IoT research testbed, a collection of commercial off-the-shelf devices that can be shared and reused across the laboratories, a common set of hardware and software applications that can be used by interested parties at SSD, a high-speed network, and a pool of available general computing resources.
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In the area of leadership and participation in standards development organizations, it is difficult to ascertain the cost-versus-benefit ratio of such work related to other job responsibilities, although SSD participation is clearly valued due to its perceived neutral stance. Matching the needs of the market and users to product development is an essential foundation for effectiveness and impact.
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