Action Item 3:1 Support the growing and pervasive need for advanced Research Computing infrastructure across all disciplines. Although high performance computing (HPC) has long been a focus of ITS’ research enablement efforts, the computational needs of researchers have grown to include a variety of new advanced “Research Computing” technologies and services that go far beyond the current HPC footprint and encompass researchers across a wide range of disciplines. These new Research Computing technologies, infrastructure, and services are critical, and ITS and the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) need to have appropriate funding and resources to support and foster such growth, if faculty research is to remain competitive. Action Item 3:2 Provide long-term and accessible storage, featuring a robust data management environment, to researchers for both federally funded projects and unfunded projects. The University must work to meet the data needs of research. Affordable, scalable, and recoverable data storage solutions must be centrally provided. UK should continue to assess the needed technical infrastructure, preservation, and curation to meet federal requirements. A committee should be established to define, establish, and enforce research data management processes and policies. These customer-friendly policies and processes should allow for internally and externally federated access to data resources as well as access to shared computational research tools, resources, and environments both for UK research faculty and external university researchers who wish to utilize them. RECOMMENDATION 3: RESEARCH ENABLEMENT The University should develop, maintain, and ensure broad utilization of IT resources that empower and advance discovery, and support partnership, entrepreneurship, and innovation when effectively utilized by faculty in research. 15 | EmpoweringTransformation