ET.gov is specifically designed to be a tool and forum for emerging technologies to be submitted and discussed, and to aid the Emerging Technologies Subcommittee in selecting the best and most relevant emerging technologies for recommendation to the Architecture & Infrastructure Committee and the Federal CIO Council to be implemented by the federal government.

To ensure this process is smooth and frustration free, the Emerging Technologies Subcommitttee has developed a four-step progression system for the emerging technologies submitted. There is no guarantee that a technology will pass the first step of the system; it is entirely dependent on the needs of the AIC and Federal CIO Council and the feedback the Emerging Technologies Committee receives from the Communities of Practice.

The steps a technology can be progressed through are as such:

Registration:

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 on the Registration page, and we encourage you to consider doing so.

Feedback:

Government employees and others can participate in discussions of technologies of interest to them, thereby forming a Community of Practice (CoP). ET.gov will provide a localized forum for these such communities, but in no way are CoPs limited to ET.gov for such discussions.

Recognition:

The ET Subcommittee recognizes technologies for which sufficient interest exists, as evidenced by the CoPs forming around them. The technologies are then brought to the public’s attention at workshops

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 (or its predecessor) for Government-wide access.