Earlier this week the Obama administration issued a new report titled "The Federal Big Data Research and Development Strategic Plan" as the latest step in its overall big data initiative. You can find the announcement on the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) blog here:

The report itself can be downloaded here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/NSTC/bigdatardstrategicplan-nitrd_final-051916.pdf

or at the NITRD web site

https://www.nitrd.gov/PUBS/bigdatardstrategicplan.pdf

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI