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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 21, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 29

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Breaking News - General:

CISE Reorganizes, Seeks Division Director

Peter Freeman, Assistant Director for CISE, National Science Foundation has issued the following note:

We announced a *proposed* reorganization of CISE this morning that includes a merging of the infrastructure portions of the current ACIR and ANIR into a new Division of Deployed Infrastructure (DDI). In light of the fact that both ACIR and ANIR are currently headed by Acting Division Directors, a position vacancy description for a Division Director was posted yesterday (in 3 different modalities) at:

www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/results.cfm?ur l_type=Vacancy%20Announcements&url_subtype=Executive&browse_type=doc_type

The proposed mission of the new DDI is:

Division of Deployed Infrastructure (DDI)

Supports the planning, construction, operation, and upgrading of the centers and facilities that are part of the national cyberinfrastructure for scientific and engineering research and education. Encourages research on experimental infrastructure to ensure the advancement of cyberinfrastructure to meet the demands of tomorrow's science and engineering community.

For more information on CISE, see www.cise.nsf.gov/abt/index.html.

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