Governmentwide Plan For Security R and D

11. Coordinate security research and development.

The GITS Working Group should direct NIST, in coordination with OMB and
with technical assistance from NSA, and the Office of Science and
Technology Policy's Federal Coordinating Council on Science,
Engineering, and Technology, to coordinate the development of a
governmentwide plan for security research and development (R&D). The
plan should be completed by December 1995. It should provide a baseline
assessment of the current R&D investment in privacy and security. The
plan should address development and prototyping of the next generation
of information systems within the context of appropriate, adequate
security and individual privacy features. The plan should also describe
a process for continuous technology improvement or advancement, which
includes evolving basic research into technology development and
prototyping initiatives followed by the introduction of mature features
into operational systems.  Finally, the plan should recommend
prototyping experiments to accelerate use of new technologies in trusted
systems and systems having individual privacy protection features.