Senior Steering Group for Cyber Security

In Spring 2008, the Senior Steering Group for Cyber Security was created and added to NITRD, which is intended to provide overall leadership and cybersecurity R&D coordination (CNCI Coordination Plan. The steering group’s membership includes the co-chair for NITRD; the director of NCO; and senior representatives of agencies, such as DOD, DHS, National Security Agency, NIST, OSTP, and OMB. Additionally, the group is intended to facilitate closer interaction between classified and unclassified R&D. Accordingly, this group’s membership also overlaps with the Special Cyber Operations Research and Engineering Interagency Working Group.