Technology and cybersecurity

Executive Order 13035: Advisory Committee on High-Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet

President: Bill Clinton

Created an outside expert committee to assess federal high-performance computing, information-technology research and the Next Generation Internet.

Status: Completed/expired. Is Executive Order 13035 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13035 is completed or expired. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13035 do?

EO 13035 established a committee of up to 25 nonfederal members to advise the National Science and Technology Council through the Office of Science and Technology Policy. It independently assessed the federal computing program, the Next Generation Internet initiative, research balance and US technological leadership. Later orders renamed it the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee and extended it through June 1, 2005. It then expired, and EO 13385 assigned its statutory advisory role to PCAST.

Administration position: The committee advised on research priorities; it did not regulate the internet, direct private technology companies or appropriate research funds.
SignedFebruary 11, 1997
Original membership cap25 nonfederal members
Final extensionThrough June 1, 2005

Before and after

Before the order

Federal computing programs lacked the specific outside advisory committee established by this order.

After the order

PITAC produced independent assessments until 2005; PCAST then became the statutory information-technology advisory committee.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Advisory committeeAssess federal computing and networking researchUntil June 2005
OSTP and National Coordination OfficeReceive advice and support the committeeHistorical
PCASTServe the later statutory IT advisory functionFrom September 2005

What happened next

EO 13035 created the committee.

EO 13092 renamed it PITAC.

EO 13305 extended it to June 1, 2005.

PITAC expired.

EO 13385 assigned the statutory role to PCAST.