Federal Initiative Will Expand Broadband Collaboration
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have announced a new initiative to develop new technologies and applications for high-speed broadband networks. The agencies have posted a request for white papers for the initiative, dubbed US Ignite, to identify potential companies, nonprofits, agencies and individuals that can provide resources and infrastructure to facilitate collaboration. Participating organizations will help develop next-generation applications for high-speed networks that cannot yet run on today's Internet infrastructure. Read the announcement...