# Presentation: 582681

## NSLS-II Strategic Planning

**John Hill**
**Experimental Facilities Division Director**
**NSLS-II **
**EFAC May 5****th****  2008**

## Need for a Strategic Plan

- NSLS-II has overall responsibility for building and operating all beamlines ensuring that they are well-integrated into the facility– extension of the stewardship role to beamline development and operations.
- Opportunity to coherently plan entire facility in a way that takes advantage of synergies in techniques and beamlines across communities
- NSLS-II is a finite resource and demand, even from existing NSLS user community, outweighs supply
- Output from workshops:	Request	Avail
- Straight Sections		34		27
- 3PWs			18		~15
- Soft Bend/IR		14		~12
- Far-IR			4		4

## A Strategic Plan

- Should:
- Leverage the core strengths of the facility for the greatest scientific impact
- Evolve with time as the environment changes
- Have an upgrade path
- Have stakeholder buy-in
- Community
- Staff
- Sponsors

## A Strategic Plan

- Should not:
- Simply be a wish list from existing NSLS community
- Be static

## NSLS-II Strategic Strengths

- Technical Strengths
- World-leading brightness (hard and soft x-ray)
- World-leading coherent flux (hard and soft x-ray)
- Small beam size
- Broad spectral coverage (far-IR to ?? keV)
- Source stability
- Long beamlines

**Notes:**
APS pulse length is 20-40ps
NSLS-II is 15 ps w/o harmonic cavities

## NSLS-II Strategic Strengths

- Scientific Strengths
- Imaging (from nm to cm)
- Dynamics (from ps to minutes)
- NE research community
- NSLS User base
- BNL Strengths (detectors, crystal optics, metrology, core research programs)

## Elements of Strategic Plan

- Should contain:
- Mission Statement
- Goals of facility
- Prioritization of competing demands
- New ideas vs. continuation of existing communities
- The appropriate balance between different scientific communities
- High impact, few users vs. High thru-put beamlines
- Identification of growth areas and opportunities for entirely new directions
- Guidance on physical placement of beamlines (weighted constraints)

## Elements of Strategic Plan (Cont.)

- Infrastructure planning (beyond construction project)
- Conventional facilities
- Future LOBs
- Additional buildings (biology, guest house, remote endstations...)
- Accelerator systems
- Accelerator performance goals, operating modes
- Insertion device development
- Detectors
- Scientific computing
- Metrology

## Scientific Portfolio of NSLS-II

- Existing User Distribution at NSLS (FY07)

-  What should the goals for the NSLS-II portfolio be?
-  How do we decide?

## Planning Process

- To date: Multiple workshops with existing community (NSLS-biased). The latest (Jan 08) produced 6 detailed white papers
- This is an excellent start, but has some weaknesses. Areas that need strengthening include
- It is very NSLS-centric
- Greater emphasis on new ideas, new opportunities?
- Status of world-wide photon environment (now and projected forward)
- How do we synthesize into a single whole, applying appropriate facility judgment?
- How do we add the missing pieces?
- How do we get user, staff and sponsors buy-in?

## Possible Roadmap

- Jan workshop white papers posted for comment by community (May 08)
- NSLS-II staff synthesize white papers into executive summary, adding facility perspective and judgment.
- Executive Summary posted (Aug 08). Comments open til Oct 08
- Solicit suggestions for New Opportunities Workshops, deadline: Oct 08
- NSLS-II Roadmap for development of strategic plan.
- Strategic plan roadmap due Nov 08
- EFAC and PAC review of Strategic Plan Roadmap (Fall 08)
- New Opportunity Workshops (Dec 08 – Apr 09)
- White papers from workshops due April 09
- NSLS-II staff prepares first draft of Strategic Plan in light of input (May 09)
- EFAC and PAC review draft Strategic Plan (Spring 09)
- Repeat as necessary.

## Summary

- The strategic plan will guide the development of experimental facilities at NSLS-II
- The expectation is NSLS-II will call for LOIs against this plan
- It will be a large amount of work to prepare a quality document
- It is not entirely clear how to do so in a manner that will reach out to the appropriate communities, be forward looking and obtain buy-in from all stakeholders.
- We are looking for advice on how to improve this process.