New and Emerging Federal Funding Opportunities The Office of Science SC at the US Department of Ener

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New and Emerging Federal Funding
Opportunities--The Office of Science (SC) at
the US Department of Energy
2006 ASEE Engineering Research Council February
28, 2006

• Bill Valdez
• Office of Science
• U.S. Department of Energy
• bill.valdez_at_science.doe.gov

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DOE Mission Areas
Energy Resources - To Foster a Secure and
Reliable National Energy Supply
National Security - To Maintain the Safety and
Reliability of the Nuclear Stockpile
Environmental Quality - To Repair the
Environmental Consequences of the Cold War
Science...
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Federal Research Funding Rankings
(1) Source FY 2007 Budget of the United
States, Analytical Perspectives volume, RD
Chapter
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Office of Science (SC)

• Supports basic research that underpins DOE
  missions.
• Provides over 40 of federal support to the
  physical sciences (including more than 90 of
  high energy and nuclear physics)
• Provides sole support to select sub-fields (e.g.
  nuclear medicine, heavy element chemistry,
  magnetic fusion, etc.)
• Supports the research of 15,000 PhDs and graduate
  students
• Constructs and operates large scientific
  facilities for the U.S. scientific community.
• Accelerators, synchrotron light sources, neutron
  sources, etc.
• Used by about 18,000 researchers every year
• Provides infrastructure support for the ten SC
  laboratories.

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Office of Science Missions

• Future of Science
• The Department of Energys Office of Science is
  the steward of national science facilities that
  maintain U.S. world-leadership status in the
  physical sciences
• Understand Key Questions the beginning of time,
  the nature of energy and matter from quarks to
  the cosmos
• Develop Scientific Workforce Using the unique
  capabilities of the DOE laboratories for teacher
  professional development enhancing the size and
  diversity of the scientific workforce
• Competitiveness
• Keeping U.S. Research and Development at the
  forefront of global science
• Scientific Computation accelerate innovation
  through virtual prototypes
• Nanotechnology centers provide a unique
  capability for US universities and industry
• Energy Security
• Develop new sources of energy through
  transformational technologies, e.g., fusion and
  novel methods of converting biomass to ethanol
• Develop stronger, lightweight materials and
  improve combustion and catalytic processes to
  reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency

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SC Research Areas
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SC Laboratories, User Facilities, and the
Institutions that Use Them
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Idaho National Environmental Engineering
Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ames Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
General Atomics
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories
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SC makes long-term investments
Why is SC different?

• Office of Science Strategic Plan

20-Year Facilities Outlook
DOE Strategic Plan
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SC Investment in the Future
SC set seven long-term (20-year) goals for our
programs

• Advance the Basic Sciences forEnergy
  Independence
• Harness the Power of Our Living World
• Bring the Power of the Stars on Earth
• Explore the Fundamental Interactions of Energy,
  Matter, Time, and Space
• Explore Nuclear Matter-From Quarks to Stars
• Deliver Computing for the Frontiers of Science
• Provide the Resource Foundations that Enable
  Great Science

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20-year Facilities OutlookPublic
PrioritizationsBuilds Consensus that Builds
Facilities

CD0
ORNL LCC CD4
Working with NASA on Joint Project
CD3
CD0
CD1
CD0
CD0
Phase one underway
CD0
Indicates Department Approval of Any of the
Following Stages (stage is current status) CD0
Mission Need Approval CD1 Approval of
Alternative Selection and Cost Range CD2
Approval of Technical, Cost, and Schedule
Baselines CD3 Approval to Start
Construction CD4 Approval for Start of
Operations
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Competitively Selected, Peer Reviewed Basic
Research
SC 3.6 B (FY06)
NSF 5.6 B (FY06)

• SC Programs
• ASCR
• BER
• BES
• FES
• HEP
• NP

• NSF Directorates
• Biological Sciences (BIO)
• Computer Information Science
  Engineering (CISE)
• Education and Human Resources (EHR)
• Engineering (ENG)
• Geosciences (GEO)
• Mathematical Physical Sciences (MPS)
• Social, Behavioral Economic Sciences (SBE)

mission-driven
proposal-driven
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Joint Efforts with NSF

• National Energy Research Scientific Computing
  Center (ASCR)
• NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and
  Engineering (FES)
• EPSCoR (started by NSF and led to creation of
  DOE/EPSCoR)
• DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NP)
• High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEP)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
  (also NASA) (HEP)
• Climate Change Research (Also NOAA, NASA, UDSA,
  Interior EPA) (BER)
• Southern Ocean Iron Experiment (Jointly funded by
  BER and NSF)
• Joint Genome Institute (also NIH, USDA, NASA)
  (BES, BER)
• Arabidopsis Genome Initiative (2010 Project)
  (also USDA, the EU, and the Chiba Prefectural
  Government of Japan) (BER)
• Maize Genome Sequencing Project (also USDA) (BER)
• The IT2 Initiative (terascale computing) (ASCR)
• Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internships
  (SULI) (WDTS)
• FacultyStudent Teams (FaST) (WDTS)
• Pre-Service Teacher (PST) Internships (WDTS)

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Office of Science BudgetUniversities Receive One
Third of Research Funds and Provide Half of the
Users at SC Facilities
The area of each pie chart is proportional to
the funding total for the year. All Other
Research includes funding for non-profits, other
federal agencies, and private institutions.
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Office of ScienceFY07 Congressional Budget
Request
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The Presidents American Competitiveness
Initiative

• We must continue to lead the world in human
  talent and creativity.  Our greatest advantage in
  the world has always been our educated,
  hardworking, ambitious people -- and we're going
  to keep that edge.  Tonight I announce an
  American Competitiveness Initiative, to encourage
  innovation throughout our economy, and to give
  our nation's children a firm grounding in math
  and science.
• I propose to double the federal commitment to
  the most critical basic research programs in the
  physical sciences over the next 10 years. This
  funding will support the work of America's most
  creative minds as they explore promising areas
  such as nanotechnology, supercomputing, and
  alternative energy sources.

President George W. Bush State of the Union
Message January 31, 2006
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The Presidents FY07 budget is a 14.1 increase
for the Office of Science on path to double by
2016

• An historic opportunity for our country a
  renaissance for U.S. science and continued global
  competitiveness.

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The Presidents FY 2007 budget enhances
the Office of Sciences lead role in support
for U.S. physical sciences

• SC facilities and instruments ensure for the U.S.
  an order of magnitude dominance in key scientific
  fields that will transform the 21st-century
  global economy biotechnology, nanotechnology,
  materials science, and high-speed computing
• SC develops and nurtures a highly trained
  scientific workforce for the civilian economy and
  national security, with many Ph.D.s entering
  industry and government
• Supports DOE energy mission through long-term,
  high-risk, high-payoff multidisciplinary research
  programs
• Provides 42 of federal support to the physical
  sciences
• We are stewards for high energy physics, nuclear
  physics, heavy element chemistry, plasma physics,
  magnetic fusion, and catalysis
• Provides and maintain ten world-class national
  laboratories and scientific facilities
• Directly supports (FY 07) the research of
  approximately 24,200 Ph.D.s, Post Doctoral
  Associates, and Graduate Students (an increase of
  2600 from FY 2006)

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In FY07 SC will construct, operate and plan for
scientific facilities for the future of science
Consequences for Competitiveness and Education

• ITER the penultimate step to abundant,
  economical, and environmentally benign fusion
  energy
• Leadership in High-End Computation
• Provide more than 250 teraflops capability for
  modeling and simulation of scientific
  grand-challenge problems in combustion, fusion,
  and complex chemical reactions
• 100 teraflops Blue Gene P computer with peak
  capacity of up to 100 teraflops to expend
  architectural diversity in leadership computing
  and address scientific challenges in materials
  science, catalysis, protein/DNA complexes, and
  advanced designs of nuclear reactors
• Increase capacity at National Energy Research
  Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to 100-150
  teraflops for high performance production
  computing.
• Linac Coherent Light Source construction
  continues this X-Ray Free Electron Laser will
  allow examination of chemical reactions in
  real-time at the single molecule level
• Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) begins operations
  as the worlds forefront neutron scattering
  facility by an order of magnitude

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The President's FY 2007 budget maintains U.S.
leadership in the following areas

• DOE Nanocenters 4 of 5 facilities begin
  operations, as the flagships of nanoscience
  providing the U.S. with resources unmatched
  anywhere in the world
• International Linear Collider RD funding doubled
  to 60M would give the U.S. world leadership in
  the study of particle physics in the next decade
• Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
  (CEBAF) Upgrade project engineering design (PED)
  to double energy will give new insights on the
  quark structure of matter
• RHIC leverage the unique capabilities of the
  Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at
  Brookhaven National Laboratory for studies of the
  internal quark-gluon structure of nucleons and
  the properties of hot, dense nuclear matter
• National Synchrotron Light Source-II, to begin
  RD and project engineering design (PED) in FY
  2007 a light source user facility with the
  world's finest capabilities for x-ray imaging

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High Energy Physics (HEP)717M in FY06

• Understand the unification of fundamental
  particles and forces and the mysterious forms of
  unseen energy and matter that dominate the
  universe search for possible new dimensions of
  space and investigate the nature of time itself.
• Supports 90 of U.S. High Energy Physics and
  Coordinates with NSF, NASA and International
  Efforts
• HEPs Fermilab Currently Holds the Energy
  Frontier and the Potential for Higgs Physics
• HEPs SLAC is Transitioning to LCLS but the
  Physics Program Continues until 2009
• Partner in the Large Hadron Collider the Next
  Frontier
• Initiative in Physics of Neutrino Masses and
  Mixing
• Research Efforts in Dark Energy, Dark Matter,
  Lattice QCD
• RD for the International Linear Collider
  Future Frontier

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Nuclear Physics (NP)367M in FY06

• Understand the evolution and structure of
  nuclear matter, from the smallest building
  blocks, quarks and gluons to the elements in the
  universe created by stars to unique isotopes
  created in the laboratory that exist at the
  limits of stability, possessing radically
  different properties from known matter.
• Supports 90 of U.S. Nuclear Physics and
  Coordinates with NSF, NASA and International
  Efforts
• NPs RHIC is Unique Forefront Heavy Ion Facility
• EBIS Upgrade Underway, Additional Upgrade Planned
  
• NPs CEBAF is Unique Forefront Nuclear
  Confinement Facility
• Upgrade Planned
• Partner in Large Hadron Collider - Heavy Ion
  Program
• RD for Rare Isotope Accelerator Future
  Frontier Facility
• Research Efforts in High Energy Density Physics,
  Double Beta Decay, Lattice QCD and Nuclear
  Structure

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Biological and Environmental Research (BER)580M
in FY06

• Provide the biological and environmental
  discoveries necessary to clean and protect our
  environment, offer new energy alternatives, and
  fundamentally alter the future of medical care
  and human health.
• Life Sciences with Energy and Environment
  Potential
• Microbial Ethanol, Bioremediation, Carbon
  Sequestration, Etc.
• Key Partner in Genomics
• Facilities - Joint Genome Institute, Mouse
  Genetics Research Facility
• 3-4 Genomics GTL Facilities Planned
• Key Partner in Climate Change Efforts
• Aerosols, Atmospheric Radiation, Clouds
  Facilities - FACE, ARM)
• Environmental Sciences for DOE Mission needs
• Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory
  (EMSL)
• Medical Applications that Utilize DOE
  Capabilities / Technologies
• Artificial Retina RD Magazine Inventor of the
  Year

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Basic Energy Sciences (BES)1,135M in FY06

• Provide the scientific knowledge and tools to
  achieve energy independence, securing U.S.
  leadership and essential breakthroughs in basic
  energy sciences.
• Unique Suite of Scientific Research Facilities
  that Provide a Spectrum of Capabilities to a Wide
  Array of Researchers
• Three Neutron Scattering Facilities, Four
  Synchrotron Radiation Light Sources, Three
  Electron Beam Microcharacterization Centers, the
  Combustion Research Facility, Materials
  Preparation Center, and Notre Dame Radiation Lab
• Forefront Capabilities at new Facilities
  Spallation Neutron Source, Five Nanoscale Science
  Research Centers, the Transmission Electron
  Aberration Corrected Microscope, and the Linac
  Coherent Light Source
• Core Basic Research in Nanoscience, Materials,
  Engineering, Chemistry, Catalysis, Geosciences,
  Energy Biosciences
• Initiatives in Nanoscience, Energy (Hydrogen,
  Solar, Solid State Lighting)

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Advanced Scientific Computing Research
(ASCR)235M in FY06

• Deliver forefront computational and
  networking capabilities to scientists nationwide
  that enable them to extend the frontiers of
  science, answering critical questions that range
  from the function of living cells to the power of
  fusion energy.
• Facilities - NERSC, ESNet, Leadership Class
  Computing Facility
• Upgrades to NERSC and ESNet Planned
• Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
  (SciDAC)
• Partnerships with Science Programs in Simulation
  and Applications of Terascale computing to
  Scientific Research
• Testbeds and Partnerships for Next Generation
  Architecture
• Core Research in Applied Math, Networks, Computer
  Science
• Expansion of Ultrascale Computing Efforts Planned

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Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)288M in FY06

• Answer the key scientific questions and
  overcome enormous technical challenges to harness
  the power that fuels a star, realizing by the
  middle of this century a landmark scientific
  achievement by bringing fusion power to the
  grid.
• The U.S. Investment in Fusion Energy Sciences
• 90 of Plasma Science coordinated with NSF and
  NASA
• Partner in High Energy Density Physics
• Partner with NNSA in Inertial Fusion
• 3 Unique Fusion Experiments
• National Spherical Torus Experiment, Alcator
  C-Mod, and D-IIID
• New Facility National Compact Stellarator
  Experiment
• Partner in ITER Next Frontier Facility

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Obtaining Funding

• Apply to a Project
• Ex SciDAC grant at http//www.science.doe.gov/gra
  nts/FAPN06-04.html deadline for letter of intent
  January 23, 2006
• Apply to an SC Program
• Ex Nuclear Physics at http//www.sc.doe.gov/np/gr
  ants/grants.html
• Apply to a National Lab
• Ex Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at
  http//www.pnl.gov/main/business/index.html
• All this info can be found at the SC web site,
  www.science.doe.gov