In March 2006, the National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a solicitation indicating its desire to establish a Computing Community Consortium.
[2] In October of that year, CRA responded to the solicitation, submitting a proposal that was backed by explicit letters of support from 132 Ph.D.-granting academic programs, 16 leading corporations, 7 major national laboratories and research centers, and five professional societies in the field.
[3] Pursuant to positive external peer review, the CCC was established in late 2006 through a cooperative agreement between NSF and CRA.
Following an open recruitment process, Ed Lazowska (University of Washington) was selected as Chair of the CCC Council in March 2007.
The first public activity of the CCC was a set of five plenary talks at the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC 2007) that month.