Cybersecurity
could become more urgent as we all experienced the discussion and drama around the election hacking election systems, home server, wikleaks, etc. The Trump-wall could also be a firewall.
HPC
Global warming, (p.s. climate modeling uses supercomputing for simulation) is the trick from China
to weaken US manufacturing.
Exascale, what is hell?, and we need to get our manufacturing job back.
Update 01/25/2017, it seems that it is happening, so fast Trump Administration Preps Plan for Huge Cuts to Department of Energy