Unfortunately, leadership from government agencies in this area has been mixed at best. The NSF has embraced data-intensive computing enthusiastically, with several new funding initiatives both within the CISE Directorate and with ties to other fields of science. However, their recent budgets have been so constrained that these programs have not been able to scale up to their full potential. The Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation program is scheduled to receive $26M for FY09. This is a step in the right direction, but further funding growth is required. Both the DoD and the DoE should be deeply involved in the development and deployment of big-data computing, since it will be of direct benefit to many of their missions. Sadly, neither of these agencies has been a driving force for innovations in computing technology in recent times. Both are making heavy investments in traditional high-performance computing infrastructure and approaches, but very little in new eScience facilities and technologies.