Cise-RV: computing community consortium - enabling bold, far-reaching computing research visions

The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Computing Research Association Inc. a $2.006 million Cooperative Agreement on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070).

The award funds the Computing Community Consortium's mission to mobilize the computing research community around emerging research challenges through visioning activities, community convening, and the production of reports, white papers, and other resources. CCC bridges computing expertise with researchers and practitioners across disciplines and sectors, generating and contextualizing research visions and translating computing discoveries to non-computer science domains. The consortium creates resources that articulate long-term computing research trajectories and addresses multi-disciplinary national and global challenges, distributing its research visions through multiple communication channels to varied stakeholders.

The performance period runs from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2030, with work performed in Washington, DC 20036. The award obligates $2.006 million. Sub-awards are planned for this agreement.

Abstract

The computing community consortium (CCC) mobilizes the computing research community to address emerging computing research challenges. Since 2006, CCC has served two key roles; 1) they serve as a bridge between computing and experts across disciplines and sectors; 2) convening the community for visioning activities where they are asked to not only envision the future of computing, but also the path to get there. These collaborative efforts between academia, industry, and government ? And the reports, white papers, and other resources that result from them ? Leverage the collective expertise of the computing community to set long-term computing research trajectories in motion and address emerging national and global challenges. The first step to advancing knowledge is gaining a clear understanding of the important challenges and large-scale technical problems, as well as what research opportunities exist to address those problems. CCC addresses these issue through its role in creating resources that generate, articulate and contextualize visioning ideas. The impact visioning and resources are also strengthened T through consistently sharing the research visions through multiple communication channels to varied stakeholders and audiences. While challenges in the computing community remain at the core, visioning activities increase in variety and disciplinary participation to meet multi-disciplinary national and global needs. Computing discoveries translated to non-computer science disciplines also multiply real-world impacts. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.- subawards are planned for this award.