# Presentation: 083437

## Maintaining U.S. Scientific Leadership and Global Economic Competitiveness

***Raymond L. Orbach***
**Director, Office of Science**
**2006 AAAS Annual Meeting**
**February 18, 2006**

***FY07 Budget Request ******for the Office of Science***

## The President’s 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 FY 2007 President’s Request for SC funding is a 14.1% increase and sets SC on a path to doubling by 2016

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

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**Future of Science**
- The Department of Energy’s 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 U.S. 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

**Office of Science Missions**

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## 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
DOE 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 maintains 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 ~2,600 from FY 2006)

- 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
- DOE 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 maintains 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 ~2,600 from FY 2006)

**The President’s FY 2007 budget enhances the Office of Science’s lead federal role in support for U.S. physical sciences**

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## In FY 2007 SC will construct, operate and plan for scientific facilities for the future of science: Consequences for Competitiveness and Education

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**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 to expand 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 world’s 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** R&D 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 R&D 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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## Office of ScienceFY 2007 Congressional Budget Request

**Office of Science****FY 2007 Congressional Budget Request**

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## Investments to maintain U.S. scientific leadership and ensure that leading-edge research facilities will be available in the future

-  *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.

**(FY 2007 - FY 2006) = +$505M**

**(Facility Operations) = +$260M, 51%**
**(Research) = +$237M, 47%**

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## Closing Thoughts

- That the Office of Science has been entrusted with this responsibility is a wonderful statement of confidence in our ability to support the President's initiative.  We are fully aware that the substantial increase in the Office of Science Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2007--and the President's commitment to a doubling of federal funding for physical science research over the next decade--takes place in a period of budgetary stringency.
- We are indebted to the President for his foresight in recognizing the vital importance of America’s continued leadership in the physical sciences to our nation’s global competitive position and our quest for greater energy security.   We are committed to holding up our end of the bargain by delivering truly transformational science and technologies--breakthrough advances that will provide new pathways to energy security and ensure America’s continued global economic leadership in the years ahead.

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