ET.gov – Emerging Technology
http://et.gov/

The purpose of this site and process is to facilitate the identification, discovery, and formation of communities of practice (CoPs) around emerging technology (ET) components and specifications of interest to government agencies. The process consists of eight stages. Additional information on the process is available for each of the stages: 1) Identification: Information regarding proposed components is registered, indexed, and made available for browsing and searching. Anyone may identify an ET component using the two-step process indicated in the menu to the left, and we encourage you to consider doing so; 2) Subscription: Government employees and others subscribe to components of interest to them, thereby forming CoPs around those components; 3) Stewardship: The ET Subcommittee accepts stewardship of components for which sufficient interest exists, as evidenced by the CoPs forming around them. The Subcommittee generally conducts workshops on a monthly basis; 4. Graduation: The technical viability and utility of ET components are demonstrated, whereupon they become candidates for use by agencies and multi-agency CoPs (e.g. eGov projects & Lines of Business) and perhaps for inclusion in CORE.gov for Governmentwide access; 5) Budgeting: Funding for governmentwide components may be requested in the President’s budget or individual agencies may allocate existing funding to them; 6) Acquisition: Components are acquired for use in government applications; 7) Maintenance: Components are maintained throughout their life cycles; and 8) Retirement/Replacement: Components are retired/replaced as needed. This has been adde dto the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information blog. This has been added to New Economy Analytics, Resources and Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.