A partnership between Government agencies and the information technologies research community has succeeded in the past for the benefit of the Nation. The most notable example is the emergence of the Internet as the basis for broad scientific, cultural, civic, and commercial discourse, evolving from what was originally a Government-supported networking research project. The collaborative development of a new applied research domain is critical to help meet the Nation's growing information service demands. Applied research that considers real world operating constraints can provide valuable new problems and insights for the academic research domain, leading to new demonstrable and deployable systems. This applied research domain is a National Challenge to provide a transition strategy for migrating Federal Information Services from legacy systems, through the interoperable systems of the Internet, and toward more advanced integrated global systems. A unique opportunity exists for a new paradigm forinteraction between Government and citizen; an opportunity to invent the
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