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## Patricia Dehmer
Deputy Director for Science Programs
Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

Download this talk at http://www.science.doe.gov/SC-2/Deputy_Director-speeches-presentations.htm  

***Patricia Dehmer***
***Deputy Director for Science Programs***
***Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy***
- Download this talk at http://www.science.doe.gov/SC-2/Deputy_Director-speeches-presentations.htm

***Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee***
***13 January 2009***

## Office of Science

- Patricia M. Dehmer
- Deputy Director for Science Programs

## The Office of Science

- The DOE Office of Science (SC) has as its mission the delivery of remarkable discoveries and scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance the national, economic, and energy security of the nation.
- A key strategy for accomplishing this mission and a hallmark of SC and its predecessors for more than six decades has been the support of fundamental science of great scale—support for major scientific challenges, major societal challenges that require science as part of the solution, and major projects and scientific user facilities to help meet the challenges.
- Within the U.S. Federal Government, SC plays a unique role, complementary to that of other agencies.  SC supports discovery science in six science program areas and supports mission-relevant (sometimes called “use-inspired”) research necessary to advance DOE’s missions, especially those in energy, environment, and national security.  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) join the Office of Science as the top three largest supporters of basic research in the U.S.

##  The Department of Energy Organizational Structure

-  The Department of Energy Organizational Structure

**Director of the Office of Science**

**The Office of Science is here**

**Secretary**
**Deputy Secretary**

**Under Secretaries (3)**

**Deputy Administrators or Assistant Secretaries or Directors (many total)**

## Organization Profile

- Staffing
- Headquarters Federal FTEs:  264
- Field Site Federal FTEs:  730
- Budget
- The budget request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 is $4,721,969,000, an increase of $748,827,000 over the FY 2008 appropriation. This supports the research of ~15,000 principal investigators (PIs) and students (with a total support for ~20,000) at more than 300 universities and at all 17 DOE laboratories. ** **
- Facilities/locations
- SC manages 10 laboratories: Ames Laboratory (Ames), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF).
- 	SC also oversees the construction and operation of the Nation’s most advanced user facilities. These include particle accelerators and colliders; synchrotron radiation light sources, neutron scattering facilities and electron-beam scattering facilities; supercomputers and high-speed computer networks; and centers for research in nanoscale science, environmental science, and biosciences. More than 21,000 researchers visit the SC-supported user facilities each year.

## Federal StaffingDetails of Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) as of 09/30/2008

**Deputy Director for **
**Field Operations**
**Headquarters (30)**

**Deputy Director for**
**Science Programs**
**Headquarters (191)**

**Deputy Director for**
**Resource Management**
**Headquarters (43)**

**Office of the Director**
**        **

**Pacific Northwest**
**Site Office**
**(35)**

**Office of Scientific**
**And Technical **
**Information**
**(57)**

**Chicago Office**
**(193)**

**Brookhaven Site**
**Office**
**(25)**

**New Brunswick**
**Laboratory**
**(29)**

**Berkeley Site Office**
**(21)**

**ORNL Site Office**
**(22)**

**Argonne Site Office**
**(23)**

**Oak Ridge Office**
**(266)**

**Ames Site Office**
**(4)**

**Fermi Site Office**
**(16)**

**Thomas Jefferson**
**Site Office**
**(12)**

**Princeton Site**
**Office**
**(12)**

**SLAC Site Office**
**(15)**

## Budget

## Office of Science Labs

- The Office of Science oversees 10 national laboratories:
- Ames Laboratory (Iowa)
- Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois)
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (New York)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Illinois)
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Virginia)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (California)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tennessee)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Washington)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (New Jersey)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (California)
- In addition, the Office of Science funds research and development projects conducted at these additional national laboratories, which are overseen by other DOE offices:
- Idaho National Laboratory (Idaho)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (California)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico)
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (Pennsylvania and West Virginia)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Colorado)
- Sandia National Laboratories (New Mexico and California)
- Savannah River National Laboratory (South Carolina)

## DOE and SC Laboratories

## Office of Science

- 10/08/08

## Major programmatic responsibilities

**Support of fundamental research** SC supports major research programs in chemistry; condensed matter and materials physics; earth sciences; climate and environmental sciences; biochemistry, biophysics, and systems biology; plasma science and fusion energy sciences; high-energy and nuclear physics; applied mathematics, computer sciences, and advanced modeling and simulation.  SC supports the research of ~15,000 principal investigators and students and ~5,000 other support staff and technicians at more than 300 universities and all 17 DOE laboratories.
**Support of major scientific user facilities for the nation** SC supports the planning, design, construction, and operation of major user facilities.  More than 21,000 investigators perform research at these facilities each year. Large facilities can have costs in excess of $1B and can be in design and construction for a decade.  Most of our facilities are at DOE labs, but increasingly we will see international cooperation as the cost of some facilities becomes well in excess of $1B.
**Oversight of 10 DOE laboratories**  SC oversees the operation of 10 laboratories ensuring mission outcomes, evaluating the performance of the Contractor, and ensuring compliance with contractual obligations. The SC Field Operations manage major construction projects and play a regulatory role for all nuclear activities at the SC laboratories.  The SC Infrastructure Modernization Initiative, launched in FY 2008, is a multi-year activity to provide modern laboratory and office space that will accommodate the needs of 21st century science and that will help attract and retain the highest-quality scientific staff.
**R&D coordination and integration**SC coordinates its activities with the programs of the DOE technology offices, those of the National Nuclear Security Administration, and those of other federal agencies. The R&D coordination includes activities in biofuels derived from biomass, solar energy, hydrogen, solid-state lighting and other building technologies, advanced nuclear energy systems, vehicle technologies, improving efficiencies in industrial processes and in electricity distribution, and materials in extreme environments for energy and national security needs.

## Basic Energy Sciences (FY 2009 budget request $1,568 million)Advances research in condensed matter and materials physics, chemistry, geosciences, and physical biosciences relevant to technologies encompassing energy resources, production, transmission, storage, conservation, efficiency, and to the mitigation of adverse impacts of energy production and use.  Constructs and supports the scientific user facilities that enable atomic-level visualization and characterization of materials of all kinds, including biological materials.
Biological and Environmental Research (FY 2009 budget request $569 million)Advances research in genomics and systems biology of microbes and plants to harness their capabilities for energy and environmental solutions, develops science-based methods for cleaning up environmental contaminants, develops models to predict climate over decades to centuries, provides regulators with a scientific basis for developing future radiation protection standards.
Fusion Energy Sciences (FY 2009 budget request $493 million) Advances the theoretical and experimental understanding of plasmas, plasma confinement, and fusion science.
Nuclear Physics (FY 2009 budget request $510 million)Advances knowledge and provide insights into the nature of energy and matter, and, in particular, to investigate the fundamental forces that bind nuclei and to determine the detailed structure and behavior of nuclei.  Supports DOE’s isotopes production and applications program for production of stable and radioactive research isotopes. 
High Energy Physics (FY 2009 budget request $805 million) Advances understanding of the basic constituents of matter, deeper symmetries in the laws of nature at high energies, and mysterious phenomena that are commonplace in the universe, such as dark energy and dark matter.
Advanced Scientific Computing Research (FY 2009 budget request $369 million)Advances research in mathematics and computer science that enables simulation and prediction of complex physical, chemical, and biological systems; provides forefront computational capabilities; and delivers networking research and facilities that link scientists across the nation to the Department-sponsored computing and experimental facilities.

**Biological and Environmental Research (FY 2009 budget request $569 million)**Advances research in genomics and systems biology of microbes and plants to harness their capabilities for energy and environmental solutions, develops science-based methods for cleaning up environmental contaminants, develops models to predict climate over decades to centuries, provides regulators with a scientific basis for developing future radiation protection standards.
**Fusion Energy Sciences (FY 2009 budget request $493 million)** Advances the theoretical and experimental understanding of plasmas, plasma confinement, and fusion science.
**Nuclear Physics (FY 2009 budget request $510 million)**Advances knowledge and provide insights into the nature of energy and matter, and, in particular, to investigate the fundamental forces that bind nuclei and to determine the detailed structure and behavior of nuclei.  Supports DOE’s isotopes production and applications program for production of stable and radioactive research isotopes.
**High Energy Physics (FY 2009 budget request $805 million)**** **Advances understanding of the basic constituents of matter, deeper symmetries in the laws of nature at high energies, and mysterious phenomena that are commonplace in the universe, such as dark energy and dark matter.
**Advanced Scientific Computing Research (FY 2009 budget request $369 million)**Advances research in mathematics and computer science that enables simulation and prediction of complex physical, chemical, and biological systems; provides forefront computational capabilities; and delivers networking research and facilities that link scientists across the nation to the Department-sponsored computing and experimental facilities.

- SC research programs

## A few of the many additional discussions

- History of SC and current challenges facing SC
- SC labs and staffing levels; laboratory security and cyber security
- FACA committees and members
- MOUs and international agreements
- Many program-specific issues, including ITER and its status