They are:
1. World-class capability and capacity in nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing.
2. Chemical, biological, optical, and electronic materials breakthroughs critical to cutting-edge research in nanotechnology, biotechnology, alternative energy, and the hydrogen economy.
3. World-leading high-end computing capability (at the petascale) and capacity, coupled with advanced networking, to enable scientific advancement through modeling and simulation at unprecedented scale and complexity.
4. Overcoming technological barriers to the practical use of quantum information processing to revolutionize fields of secure communications.
5. Overcoming technological barriers to efficient and economic use of hydrogen, nuclear, and solar energy through new basic research approaches in materials science.
6. Addressing gaps and needs in cyber security and information assurance to protect our IT-dependent economy from both deliberate and unintentional disruption.
7. Improvement of sensor and detection capabilities that will result in world-leading automation and control technologies with a broad range of applications.
8. Development of manufacturing standards for the supply chain to advance and accelerate the development and integration of more efficient production practices
9. Enhanced response to international standards challenges.
10. Accelerated work on advanced standards for new technologies
11. Advances in materials science and engineering to develop technologies and standards for improving structural performance during hazardous events.
12. Improving capacity, maintenance, and operations of DoE and NIST labs.
would anyone on the front lines care to tell how much progress is or is not being made on these initiative?
It is one thing to set goals, another thing to lay out a plan to achieve them, yet another to start marching toward them and finally, yet another to reach them.
How is the president doing in this area?
What do you think?
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