Information Technology Innovation Fund

Overview
Another offshoot of the NPR initiative was

The Information Technology Innovation Fund (ITIF), an offshoot of the NPR initiative, operated from 1995 to 2000, expiring with the end of the Federal Telephone System-2000 (FTS-2000) program. Funded through a 1% set-aside from FTS-2000 charges assessed to agencies, the ITIF provided about $30 million for some 70 programs.

Source

 * National Research Council, Committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government, Information Technology Research, Innovation, and E-Government (2002) (full-text).