# Presentation: 244578

- Office of Science

***Dr. Raymond L. Orbach***
- Under Secretary for Science
- U.S. Department of Energy
- September 20, 2007

**Budget and Facilities**
*Presentation to the *
*Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC)*

## Office of ScienceFY 2008 Budget Request Status

- Office of ScienceFY 2008 Budget Request Status

## Facilities for the Future of Science:A Twenty-Year Outlook

- In November, 2003 DOE’s Office of Science proposed a portfolio
- of 28 prioritized new scientific facilities and upgrades of current
- facilities spanning scientific disciplines to ensure the U.S. retains
- its primacy in critical areas of science and technology well into
- the next century.
- The *Facilities for the Future of Science: A Twenty-Year Outlook *
- was the first long-range facilities plan prioritized across disciplinary
- lines ever issued by a government science funding agency
- anywhere in the world.
- Significant progress has been made in implementing the plan and deploying many of the planned facilities.
- We have just finished an update on where we are at now in 2007.

## The Prioritized Facilities List

## Facilities For the Future: 20-Year Outlook – November 2003

***Facilities For the Future: 20-Year Outlook *****– November 2003**

**Programs:**
- ASCR = Advanced Scientific Computing
- 	Research
- BES = Basic Energy Sciences
- BER = Biological and Environmental
- 	Research
- FES = Fusion Energy Sciences
- HEP = High Energy Physics
- NP = Nuclear Physics

## Status of Facilities For the Future: 20-Year Outlook – By the end of FY 2008

- *Technology readiness changed
- # Changed due to planned facility abroad

**Status of *****Facilities For the Future: 20-Year Outlook***** – By the end of FY 2008**

## Comparing Facilities Portfolio With Europe’s Roadmap

_**DOE Science plan**_
-  	Is a “bottoms up” & “top down” approach
-  	Includes prioritization across fields of science
-  	28 facilities made the cut
-  	While some facilities are international, most would be 	entirely funded by the U.S.

_**ESFRI Roadmap**_
-  	Is not a priority list
-  	Aim is to facilitate discussion to allow for coherent 	planning
-  	35 facilities made the cut
-  	Each facility supported by at least one European 	Member and has great potential at pan-European level

## European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures, Report 2006 (pg.8-9)

- European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures, Report 2006 (pg.8-9)

## 21st Century Light Sources:An assessment of needs driven by new scientific opportunities 

-  	The BES suite of storage-ring-based light sources is one of the largest and most  	scientifically productive complex of user facilities in the world, serving more than 	8,500 users each year.
-  	The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC, the first hard x-ray, linac-based light 	source, will be added to this complex in FY 2009. It will be fully operational a year or 	two later.
-  	The National Synchrotron Light Source – II at BNL, an advanced ultra bright storage-	ring-based light source, will be added to the complex a few years later, in 	approximately 2015.
-  	By 2015, with LCLS and NSLS-II newly operating, the youngest of today’s BES light 	sources will be approaching its 20th birthday. Now is the time for DOE and the 	scientific community to begin the process of strategic planning for the 21st 	century light sources that will be as impactful as today’s light sources and address 	the scientific needs of the community in the 21st Century.
-  	The scientific opportunities and mission needs – as developed over the past five 	years in ten Basic Research Needs workshops and in the BESAC Grand Challenges 	study – are the major drivers for the specifications of new and upgraded light 	sources.

## BESAC Charge 

- Consider the characteristics of the next generation light sources that will address the scientific and technological challenges put for in the Basic Research Needs workshops reports and the BESAC Grand Challenge study and that will enable new and innovative ways of probing our material world in the 21st Century.
- The characteristics to be specified are the standard ones used to describe light sources: wavelength, flux, brightness, emittance, coherence, pulse length, potential instrument suite, availability and reliability of the entire system, and user accessibility. The charge excludes consideration of the many specific pre-proposals or proposals for light sources that are currently being discussed in the community. However, the capabilities of various types of light sources (including lasers, storage-ring-based and linac-based light sources, or other types of light sources) should be evaluated against the preferred characteristics of the new light sources. Both upgrades and new facility concepts may be considered in this context.
- The work of the BESAC subcommittee should be reported to BESAC at its summer 2008 meeting.