DOE Office of Science
Update and FY 2018 Budget Request to Congress
Presented to theFusion Energy Sciences
Advisory Committee
bySteve Binkley
Deputy Director for Programs
Steve.Binkley@science.doe.gov

February 1, 2018

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Outline Message from DOE leadership Appointee status
 FY 2018 budget

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Message from Secretary Perry• The FY18 budget request attempts torefocus and refine our mission on several
critical fronts that directly affect the safety
and security of the American public.
• The $28 billion FY 2018 budget advancesthe DOE mission in key areas throughsignificant investments to:– Modernize the country’s nuclear weapons
arsenal– Achieve exascale computing– Advance the Nation’s nuclear waste
management program– Protect our national electric grid fromcyberattacks– Shift the Department’s focus to early-stage
research and development at our national
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Message from the DOE Office of Science• Our job is to deliver the best science we can with the resources we aregiven by the President and Congress• There will be some challenges for FY 2018, and we are awaiting final
passage of the House-Senate conference• Once the final appropriation is passed, we will be working out the FY 2018
execution details• In the meantime, we need to remain clear about our priorities:– Deliver the best science we can with the resources we havewhen Congress votes and the President finally signs an FY 2018budget– Continue tradition of excellence in SC-funded university-based
research, lab-based research, and operations of scientificefacilities

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DOE Office of Science Organization

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Appointee StatusDeputy Secretary of Energy Nominee Dan Brouillette Nomination announced April 3, 2017
 Senate Hearing May 25, 2017

 Senate Confirmation on August 3, 2017
 Sworn in as Deputy Secretary, August 7, 2017

Under Secretary for Science Nominee Paul Dabbar
 Nomination announced July 12, 2017
 Senate Hearing July 20, 2016
 Senate Confirmation November 2, 2017
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Under Secretary for Science Nominee Paul Dabbar
Paul Dabbar is Managing Director in the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group, and Head ofEnergy Mergers & Acquisitions at J.P.Morgan, the investment banking division of JPMorgan
Chase & Co. He has also led a number of M&A transactions for JPMorgan Chase. He has
been financial advisor on over $300 billion in M&A transactions, including corporate mergers,
subsidiary sales and purchases, government privatizations, joint ventures, corporate
restructurings, private equity transactions, and unsolicited corporate transactions for companies
in the energy sector, including nuclear, as well as in the industrials and financial institutions
sectors.
Mr. Dabbar is a member of the Board of the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental
Management Advisory Board, and is chairman of his U.S. Naval Academy class fundraisingboard.
Prior to J.P.Morgan, Mr. Dabbar was a nuclear submarine officer, serving on board the U.S.S.
Pintado (SSN-672) out of Mare Island, CA, and Pearl Harbor, HI, where he completed
deployments to places including the North Pole and South America. He also worked at theJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory conducting U.S. Department of Defense research.
Mr. Dabbar has a B.S. with merit in marine engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy (Class of‘89) and a M.B.A. from Columbia University. He also completed the U.S. Naval nuclear
program’s Engineer’s School.
https://energy.gov/em/contributors/paul-m-dabbar

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FY 2018 PRESIDENT’S BUDGETREQUEST
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Priorities for FY 2018
 Focus on cutting edge, early stage research and development; achieve 40% fundingfor researcho The Office of Science (SC) is the largest Federal supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the UnitedStates. SC supports research at the frontiers of science—discovering nature’s mysteries, from the study ofsubatomic particles, atoms, and molecules that are the building blocks of the materials of our everyday world, tothe DNA, proteins, and cells that are the building blocks of entire biological systems.
o SC also supports science for energy—advancing a clean energy agenda through fundamental research on energy
production, conversion, storage, transmission, and use, and through advancing our understanding of the earth.

 Continue operations of the national laboratories
o SC oversees the operation of ten DOE national laboratories. SC conducts a formal laboratory strategic planning
process annually with its labs to understand future directions, immediate and long-range challenges, and resource
needs. SC also conducts an annual evaluation of the scientific, technological, managerial, and operational
performance of the management and operating contractors of its laboratories. In addition, SC funds mission-readyinfrastructure and investments that foster safe and environmentally responsible operations at the labs.

 Increase funding for Exascale Computing
 Maintain all on-going projects and start two new construction projectso2 New Construction Projects:o Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Basic Energy
Sciences ando Energy Sciences Capability at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Science Laboratories
Infrastructure.
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9FY 2018 SC Budget Request
FY 2017

FY 2018

EnactedApprop.

President'sRequest

HouseMark

SenateMark

ASCR……………………………………………………………………………………………………
647,000
722,010694,200
763,000
BES………………………………………………………………………………………………………
1,871,500
1,554,500
1,871,500
1,980,300
BER………………………………………………………………………………………………………
612,000
348,950
582,000
633,000
FES………………………………………………………………………………………………………
380,000
309,940
395,000
232,000
HEP………………………………………………………………………………………………………
825,000
672,700
825,000
860,000
NP………………………………………………………………………………………………………
622,000
502,700
619,200
639,200
WDTS……………………………………………………………………………………………………
19,50014,00019,50019,500
SLI………………………………………………………………………………………………………
130,000
76,200105,600
143,000
S&S………………………………………………………………………………………………………
103,000
103,000
103,000
103,000
PD………………………………………………………………………………………………………
182,000
168,516
177,000
177,000
Subtotal, Science………………………………………………………………………………………
5,392,000
4,472,516
5,392,000
5,550,000aRescission of PY Bal……………………………………………………………………………………
-1,028......
......
......
Total, Science…………………………………………………………………………………………
5,390,972
4,472,516
5,392,000
5,550,000
aRescission of PY funds in the amount -$239 for PY 2012 and older: -$239 for FY 2013 and -$550 for FY 2014 - FY 2016.

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Secretary’s Regulatory Reform Agenda… Given the significant amount of expertise possessed by DOE's FACA committees and theirmembers, and the President's direction to reduce regulatory burdens, I hereby direct each FACA
committee, in carrying out the charges for which they were created, to consider regulatory reform andto provide appropriate advice and recommendations on DOE regulations, guidance or policies …

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In Conclusion …
• In the immediate future:– Keep producing great science!
– Continue tradition of excellence in SC-supported research andoperations of our scientific facilities• In the coming weeks and months:– Congress is deliberating its appropriations decisions– We must be ready to execute when the new fiscal year starts onOctober 1, 2017

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Backup Slides

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Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Computational and networking capabilities to extend the frontiers of science and technology
 Exascale Computing Initiative (ECI) and Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The ECP
is initiated as a joint ASCR/NNSA partnership using DOE’s formal project management
processes. A new budget line was created for the SC-ECP in FY 2017.
 Facilities operate optimally and with >90% availability; deployment of 200 petaflop
upgrade at OLCF and site preparations for exascale machines and NERSC-9 and upgradeof ESnet.
 SciDAC partnerships were recompeted in FY 2017 with new institutes and partnershipsthat span basic science priorities.
 Applied Mathematics research addresses challenges of increasing complexity andComputer Science research and Research and Evaluation Partnerships explores
technologies “beyond Moore’s law” including testbeds.
 The Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship is funded at $10 million.

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Basic Energy Sciences
Understanding, predicting, and controlling matter and energy at the electronic, atomic, and molecular levels
 The BES FY 2018 Request of $1,554.5 million is a decrease of $294.5 million or 16% from the FY 2016
Enacted level.
 The overall research funding in FY 2018 is reduced by 18% from FY 2016, requiring a significant shift inpriorities with targeted reductions of activities that extend to later-stage fundamental research. Both the coreresearch and the EFRC program will emphasize emerging high priorities in quantum materials andchemistry, catalysis science, synthesis, and instrumentation science.
 No funding is requested for the two BES-supported Energy Innovation Hubs, Batteries and Energy
Storage and Fuels from Sunlight, or for the DOE Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
 All BES user facilities will operate at significantly below optimal levels. Selected light source beamlines andneutron flight paths will be shut down. The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource will operate up to thefirst quarter and then transition to a warm standby status. No funding is requested for two Nanoscale
Science Research Centers: the Center for Functional Nanomaterials or the Center for Integrated
Nanotechnologies.

 No funding is requested for Long Term Surveillance and Maintenance or for the disposition of unused
equipment for the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center.
 To maintain international competitiveness of our facilities, BES will continue to support the Linac Coherent
Light Source-II (LCLS-II) and Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) projects. APS-U will transition
from a major item of equipment to a line item construction project.

16Biological and Environmental Research
Understanding complex biological and environmental systems
 Genomic sciences supports recompeted Bioenergy Research Centers at reduced levels, microbiome
research, and efforts in biosystems design for bioenergy and renewable bioproducts.
 Mesoscale-to-molecules research supports the development of enabling technology to visualize key
metabolic processes in plant and microbial cells at the subcellular and mesoscale, including new efforts incryo-EM.

 Atmospheric System Research supports research to advance the understanding of cloud-aerosolprecipitation interactions to improve dynamic earth system models.
 Environmental and Earth System Modeling supports development of physical, chemical, and biologicalmodel components physical, chemical, and biological model components, as well as fully coupled Earthsystem models to simulate climate variability at regional and global scales.

 Environmental System Science supports research to provide a robust, predictive understanding ofterrestrial surface and subsurface ecosystems. Supports the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment in
the Arctic, targeting a terrestrial ecosystem not well represented in earth system models.
 User facilities operate at reduced levels: ARM continues measurements at two fixed sites: North Slope,
Alaska and Southern Great Plains, Oklahoma; one mobile facility deploys to the Southern Ocean. JGIprovides genome sequence data, synthesis, and analysis. EMSL focuses on molecular scale analysis forbiological and environmental samples.

SC-1 FESAC February 1, 201817Fusion Energy Sciences
Matter at very high temperatures and densities and the scientific foundations for fusion
 DIII-D will operate for 18 weeks and focus on high priority research

 NSTX-U is down for repair. Scientists will analyze previous data, support recovery, andperform collaborative research on other tokamaks
 Support increases for Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing activities Support is maintained for U.S. research involvement on international machines EAST(China), KSTAR (Korea), and W7-X (Germany) Materials and Fusion Nuclear Science research will focus on high priority research
 HEDLP research is will focus on the MEC instrument at LCLS General Plasma Science activities will continue, including the partnership with NSF
 The Request supports the U.S. Contributions to ITER Project

Performing astrophysics experiments in the lab(MEC / SLAC)

New γ-ray camera in DIII-D to detect
ultra high energy electrons

Atomistic modeling of H-He
synergies in tungsten

Advanced simulations lead tooptimized stellarator coils

SC-1 FESAC February 1, 201818High Energy Physics
Understanding how the universe works at its most fundamental level The HEP mission is to understand how our universe works at its most fundamental level:o Discover the most elementary constituents of matter and energy
o Probe the interactions between themo Explore the basic nature of space and time
 In May 2014 the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) released a reportpresenting an actionable long-term strategy for U.S. particle physics that enables
discovery and maintains the U.S. position as a global leader in particle physics.
o The P5 report identified five intertwined science drivers, compelling lines of inquiry thatshow great promise for discovery:‒Use the Higgs boson as a new tool for discovery‒
Pursue the physics associated with neutrino mass
‒ Identify the new physics of dark matter‒
Understand cosmic acceleration: dark energy
and inflation‒ Explore the unknown: new particles,interactions, and physical principles
 Science drivers identify the scientific motivation while the Energy, Intensity, and Cosmic
Research Frontiers provide a useful categorization of experimental techniques
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Nuclear Physics
Discovering, exploring, and understanding all forms of nuclear matter Decreased funding for research focuses resources on the most critical areas of nuclear science
research Operations at RHIC will be supported for ten weeks in FY 2018. Beam time in FY 2018 will becombined with planned operation in FY 2019 to explore the properties of the quark gluon plasma
first discovered there and to enable studies of spin physics
 The 12 GeV CEBAF Upgrade, completed in FY 2017, will begin its scientific program with a tenweek run, promising new discoveries and an improved understanding of quark confinement.
 Operations at ATLAS are supported, continuing to provide high-quality beams of all the stableelements up to uranium as well as selected beams of short-lived nuclei.
 Construction will continue on the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams following a rebaseline of theproject reflecting reduced construction funding in FY 2018. Funding for the Gamma-Ray Energy
Tracking Array (GRETA) MIE is continued to exploit the scientific potential of FRIB.
 Fabrication continues on the Stable Isotope Production Facility (SIPF) to produce enrichedstable isotopes, a capability not available in the U.S. for almost 20 years.

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FY 2018 Construction Projects(dollars in millions)
FY 2018
FY 2016
FY 2017
President'sCurrent w/Enacted
SBIR/STTR
RequestOngoing Projects:
BES - 13-SC-10 Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II), SLAC

200.3

190.0

182.1

FES - 14-SC-60 U.S. Contributions to International Thermonuclear Experimental Research(ITER)

115.0

50.0

63.0

HEP - 11-SC-40 Long Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment(LBNF/DUNE)HEP - 11-SC-41 Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment (Mu2e)
NP - 14-SC-50 Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), Michigan State University
SLI - 15-SC-76 Materials Design Laboratory at ANL
SLI - 15-SC-78 Integrative Genomics Building at LBNLSLI - 17-SC-71 Integrated Engineering Research Center at FNALSLI - 17-SC-73 Core Facility Revitalization at BNLTotal, Ongoing Projects

26.0
40.1
100.0
23.9
20.0
…
…
525.3

50.0
43.5
100.0
19.6
19.6
2.5
1.8
477.0

54.9
44.4
80.0
24.5
24.8
1.5
1.5
476.7

New Starts in FY 2018:BES - 18-SC-10 Advanced Proton Source (APS) Upgrade, ANL*SLI - 18-SC-71 Energy Sciences Capability, PNNL
Total, New Starts in FY 2018
Total, Construction

…
…
…
525.3

…
…
…
477.0

20.0
1.0
21.0
497.7

*converts from MIE to Line-Item Construction

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FY 2018 MIE Projects(dollars in millions)
FY 2018
FY 2016
FY 2017
President's
Current w/
Enacted
SBIR/STTR
RequestOngoing Projects:
BES - Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U), ANL*HEP - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera (LSSTcam)
HEP - Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)HEP - Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II)

20.0
40.8
9.8
…

42.5
45.0
12.0
0.5

…
9.8
1.9
2.0

HEP - Large Underground Xenon (LUX) - ZonEd Proportional scintillation in Liquid
Noble gases (ZEPLIN) experiment (LZ)

10.5

12.5

14.1

HEP - Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search at Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Laboratory(SuperCDMS-SNOLab)NP - Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA)
NP - Stable Isotope Production Facility (SIPF)
Total, Ongoing Projects

2.4
…
…
83.5

3.4
0.7
2.5
119.12.00.2
1.5
31.5

…
83.5

…
119.1

27.0
58.5

New Starts in FY 2018:
HEP - High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Accelerator Upgrade Project (HL-LHCAUP)
Total, MIEs
*converts from MIE to Line-Item Construction

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