IP: Update on NGI funding

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Van Eyck, Laila" <VanEyckL () NASULGC NCHE EDU>
Subject:      CGA News update on NGI
To: CGA-NEWS () UMDD UMD EDU


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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




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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
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