# Presentation: 712254

## OSTP Update

**Rob Dimeo & Jon Morse**
**Physical Sciences and Engineering**
**Office of Science and Technology Policy**
**Executive Office of the President**

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## Executive Office of the President (EOP)

**White House Office**
- (Homeland Security Council, Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, Freedom Corps)

**Office of **
**Management & Budget**
**(OMB)**

**Office of the **
**Vice President**

**National Security Council **
**(NSC)**

**President’s **
**Foreign Intelligence **
**Advisory Board**

**Council of**
**Economic Advisors**
**(CEA)**

**Council of**
**Environmental Quality**
**(CEQ)**

**US Trade Representative**
**(USTR)**

**Office of **
**Administration**

**Office of National Drug Control Policy**

**Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)**

- Mix of detailees, career, political

- Primarily **political staff**

- Primarily **career** staff

**Domestic Policy Council**
**Nat’l Economic Council**
**Nat’l AIDS Policy**

**Executive Office of the President (EOP)**

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## OSTP-What We Do

**Advise the President and others within the Executive Office of the President on the impacts of science and technology on domestic and international affairs; **
**Lead interagency efforts to develop and implement sound science and technology policies and budgets; **
**Work with the private sector to ensure Federal investments in science and technology contribute to economic prosperity, environmental quality, and national security; **
**Build strong partnerships among Federal, State, and local governments, other countries, and the scientific community; **
**Evaluate the scale, quality, and effectiveness of the Federal effort in science and technology.**

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## OSTP-Who We Are

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## The Budget Cycle

**memorandum on R&D priorities**

**2. Agencies prepare and submit **
**proposed budgets**
**to OMB**

**3. Passback, negotiations, & appeals between agencies and EOP**

**4. President makes final decisions and sends Budget Request to Congress**

**5. Congress reviews, considers, & approves *****overall***** Budget Request**

**6. Appropriations hearings with agencies & EOP on individual programs**

**7. Congress marks up & passes agency appropriations bills**

**8. President signs or vetoes appropriations bills**

**9. Agencies make decisions on allocation of resources consistent with enacted appropriations and program plans**

***The Budget Cycle***

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## It’s the most wonderful timeof the year

**Currently under a CR**
**Next potential time for Conference will be after the mid-term elections**
**FY08 agency budgets submitted to OMB-currently under review**

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## National Science & Technology Council

**NSTC Structure****November 2005**

**Biotechnology**

**WH:   Sharon Hays**
**DOD:  Ken Krieg**
**DHS: Charles McQueary**

**WH: Richard Russell**
**DOC: Ben Wu**

**WH: Sharon Hays**
**DOC: Conrad Lautenbacher**
**EPA: George Gray**

**NSTC**
**Director, OSTP**

**WH: Sharon Hays**
**NSF: Arden Bement**
**NIH: Elias Zerhouni**

**Committee on **
**Environment & **
**Natural Resources**

**Committee on **
**Science**

**Committee on **
**Technology**

**Committee on **
**Homeland and**
**National Security**

**Aeronautics S& T**

**Manufacturing Research & Development**

- *in development
- **Informal

**Social, Behavioral & Econ.**

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## Interagency Working Group on the Physics of the Universe

**Interagency Working Group on the *****Physics of the Universe***

**Originally established to formulate an implementation plan for the opportunities identified in the 2002 NRC report *****Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century***
**Report released in February 2004**

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## Interagency Working Group on the Physics of the Universe

**The IWG based its prioritization of the eleven questions upon an assessment of each question’s fit to the following criteria:**
**	****Current potential for scientific advancement**
**	****The timeliness or urgency of each question**
**	****The technical readiness of projects necessary to advance the science of each question**
**	****Existence of gaps in the overall suite of projects addressing the question**

**Step 1:****	****Prioritize the Questions**

**Setting Priorities**

**Step 2:****	****Identify Potential Activities**

**Step 3:****	****Group Related Elements**

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## Interagency Working Group on the Physics of the Universe

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## Interagency Working Group on the Physics of the Universe

**Where are we now?**

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## Interagency Working Group on the Physics of the Universe

**IWG re-established and had first meeting March 22, 2006**
**Co-chairs: Robin Staffin (DoE-SC), Joe Dehmer (NSF-PHY), Eric Smith (NASA-SMD)**
**Will report on progress made towards interagency coordination on items discussed in the PoU report.**
**Interagency Task Force on High Energy Density Physics under the auspices of the PoU IWG**
**Dark energy**
**Interagency Lessons-Learned Task Force: an ad-hoc task force under the auspices of the PoU IWG**

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## Physics of the Universe IWGNASA’s Beyond Einstein Program

**PoU report endorsed (among other things) **
**NASA/DoE Joint Dark Energy Mission**
_**LISA**_**, and **_**Constellation-X**_*** “part of a powerful and complementary suite of tools aimed at the discovery of gravitational waves and exploration of the physics of strong gravitational fields around black holes.”***
**NRC study will assess each of the BE missions (Con-X, LISA, JDEM, a black hole finder, and an inflationary probe) for scientific impact, technological readiness, management plans, and cost estimates.**
**Recommend which mission should go first and R&D investment strategy for subsequent missions.**
**Inform the next Decadal Survey on ordering the remaining BE missions.**
**Report scheduled for release in September 2007 to inform FY09 budget process.**

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## Task Force on High Energy Density Physics

**2003 NRC/Davidson report: *****Frontiers in High Energy Density Physics: The X-Games of Contemporary Science***
**Identify the scientific opportunities and establish a unifying theme for the field**
***“******The need for a broad, ***_***multi-agency***_*** approach to support the field of HEDP”***
***“******It is recommended that ***_***federal interagency collaborations***_*** be strengthened in fostering high energy density basic science.  Such program collaborations are important for fostering the basic science base, without the constraints imposed by the mission orientation of many of the Department of Energy’s high energy density programs.”***

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## Task Force on High Energy Density Physics

**2004 NSTC/Davidson report:***** Frontiers for Discovery in High Energy Density Physics***
**Chartered by Interagency Working Group on the Physics of the Universe**
**Summarize research opportunities and identify opportunities for interagency coordination**
**Identified 15 thrust areas in**
**Astrophysical systems**
**Beam-induced HEDP**
**Stockpile stewardship facilities**
**Ultrafast, ultraintense laser science**
***“***_***Interagency cooperation is particularly important***_*** for rapid scientific progress in this quintessentially interdisciplinary area.”***
**HEDP TF convened under PoU IWG to establish a plan to coordinate the multidisciplinary activities **_**across agency boundaries**_
**Draft report outlining a Federal coordination plan in progress**

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## Task Force on High Energy Density Physics

**From *****Frontiers for Discovery in High Energy Density Physics*****, OSTP National Task Force on High Energy Density Physics (July, 2004)**

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## From Frontiers for Discovery in High Energy Density Physics, OSTP National Task Force on High Energy Density Physics (July, 2004)

**From *****Frontiers for Discovery in High Energy Density Physics*****, OSTP National Task Force on High Energy Density Physics (July, 2004)**

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## Lessons-Learned Status

**Lessons-learned activity coordinated under the NSTC Physics of the Universe Interagency Working Group (3-22-06)**
**Group planning meeting on 4-19-06 at OSTP attended by agency reps: Hertz (NASA), Staffin (DOE), Van Citters (NSF), and Friel (NSF)**
**Multiple projects discussed: GLAST, VERITAS, GSMT, JDEM, LHC, LSST, NVO**
**Scope includes interagency project aspects only (not international)**
**Individual project teams and program managers completed questionnaires **
**Agency reps met at OSTP to discuss the findings 8-7-06**
**Draft writing in progress**

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