The National Institutes of Health have issued a draft of their Strategic Plan for Data Science along with a formal request for comments. You can find both the request for comments and a pointer to the plan at:

This is a very, very important initiative and they would welcome community input on this plan.

NLM has also been very busy this last few days. They've released their strategic plan:

Further, there are comments from Patricia Brennan, the Director of NLM, here:

Help NLM and NIH Shape a Data-Driven Future – NLM Musings from the Mezzanine

It’s a busy and exciting time for the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. This week we released NLM’s strategic plan, A Platform for Biomedical Discovery and Data-Po…

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI