FY 2016 Budget Request to Congress
for DOE’s Office of Science& More
March 2015

Dr. Patricia M. Dehmer
Acting Director, Office of Science
http://science.energy.gov/sc-2/presentations-and-testimony/

Office of Science
By the numbers
SC delivers scientific discoveries and tools to transform
our understanding of nature and advance the energy,
economic, and national security of the U.S.
Research
 Support for 47% of the U.S. Federal support of basic
research in the physical sciences; ~22,000 Ph.D. scientists, grad students, engineers, andsupport staff at >300 institutions, including all 17 DOE labs;
 U.S. and world leadership in high-performance computing
and computational sciences; Major U.S. supporter of physics, chemistry, materials
sciences, and biology for discovery and for energy sciences.

Support for basic researchin the physical sciences byagency.
Source: NSF Science andEngineering Indicators 2012

Shown is a portion of SLAC's two-mile-long linear accelerator (or linac), which
provides the electron beam for the new Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) –the world’s first hard x-ray, free-electron laser. For nearly 50 years, SLAC's linac
had produced high-energy electrons for physics experiments. Now researchers
use the very intense X-ray pulses (more than a billion times brighter than themost powerful existing sources) much like a high-speed camera to take stopmotion pictures of atoms and molecules in motion, examining fundamental
processes on femtosecond timescales.

Scientific User Facilities
 The world’s largest collection of scientific user facilities (akaresearch infrastructure) operated by a single organization in
the world, used by 31,000 researchers each year.
2

Office of Science FY 2016 Budget Request to Congress(Dollars in thousands)

3

FY 2016 SC Budget Request by Category
Dollars in Thousands
MIEs$144,901
3%Construction
 BES: Linac Coherent Light Source-II continues
and is in its peak funding year ($200,300K).
 FES: ITER – support for the USIPO, IO, andhardware fabrication continues ($150,000K).
 HEP: Long Baseline Neutrino Facility($20,000K for PED); Muon to Electron
Conversion ($40,100K).
 NP: FRIB continues and is at the peak of its
funding profile ($100,000K); accelerator
commissioning and detector construction ofthe CEBAF 12 GeV upgrade continue($12,000K).
 SLI: Materials Design Lab at ANL ($23,910K);
Photon Science Lab Building at SLAC($25,000K); Integrative Genomics Building atLBNL ($20,000K).
 Also in SLI: “Infrastructure Support” increases
by $31,100K for top priorities identified as partof the Campus Strategy discussions, forelectrical upgrades at ANL and SLAC and forfacility improvements at FNAL.

Construction$591,310
11%

Other*$364,747
7%

SBIR/STTR$143,340
3%

 BES: Advanced Photon Source Upgrade(APS-U) ($20,000K) and NSLS-II
Experimental Tools (NEXT) (15,500K).
 HEP: LHC Detector Upgrades (ATLASand CMS) ($9,500K each); Large
Synoptic Survey Telescope camera(LSSTcam) ($40,800K); Muon g-2($10,200K); LUX-ZEPLIN ($9,000K);
SuperCDMS-SNOLab ($2,000K); Dark
Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)($5,300K).

Research
FacilityOperations$1,995,565
37%
Research$2,099,931
39%

Facility Operations
 ASCR, BER, BES, HEP: Facilities operate at ornear to optimal, >98%.
 FES: NSTX resumes operations for 14 weeks;
DIII-D operates for 12 weeks until shutdown for
installation of upgrades; Alcator C-Mod operates
for 5 weeks prior to final shutdown at the end ofFY 2016.
 NP: RHIC operates 22 weeks, same as in FY
2015 and has funding for capital equipment andspares; ATLAS operates 37 weeks; CEBAF is
supported for continued machine development
and commissioning of beam to Halls B and C.

Major Items of Equipment*Other includes GPP/GPE amounts for BES, GPP for FES,
Other (DOE/SC/Fermi/Lawrence) for NP, WDTS, SLI nonconstruction funding, S&S, and Program Direction.

 ASCR: There is a significant increase for theexascale initiative to support for HPC vendors todesign and develop exascale node technologies
and systems. (Δ = +$86,895K).
Also in ASCR: The Computational Science
Graduate Fellowship is restored at $10,000K to
fully fund a new cohort!
 BES: Increases for EFRCs (Δ = +$10,000K),
Computational Materials Sciences (Δ = +$4,000K),
and mid-scale instrumentation for ultrafast electron
scattering (Δ = +$5,000K).
 BER: Increases for Climate and Earth System
Modeling with largest increase for Climate Model
Development & Validation and Integrated
Assessment. (Δ = +$18,730K). Some decreases
offset the increases.
 FES: Research continues in all areas. Increase for
GPP for PPPL in support of NSTX-U operations.
HEDLP is reduced, but the Matter in Extreme
Conditions end station at LCLS remains fullyfunded.
 HEP: Research funding is nearly flat with FY 2015
and supports scientific results from operating
experiments and R&D for future projects.
 NP: Research increases by more than 8% tosupport high-priority work.
4

FY 2016 SC Budget Request by Category
Dollars in Thousands

5

FY 2016 SC Budget Request by Category
Dollars in Thousands

6

FY 2016 SC Budget Request by Category
Dollars in Thousands

7

FY 2016 SC Budget Request by Category
Dollars in Thousands

8

HEPAP/P5 Reports, 2008 and 2014

9

BESAC Light Source Report, 2013

The report dramatically alteredplans for new/upgraded lightsources at ANL, LBNL, andSLAC – affecting APS (ANL),NGLS (LBNL), ALS (LBNL), andLCLS (SLAC).

10BESAC Grand Challenges, 2015

Instrumentation, Synthesis, People, Resources
11

FESAC 2014
Pat’s take aways: Five areas of importance emerge.
 First, massively parallel computing with the goal of validated whole-fusion-devicemodeling will enable a transformation in predictive power, which is required tominimize risk in future fusion energy development steps.
 Second, materials science as it relates to plasma and fusion sciences will provide thescientific foundations for greatly improved plasma confinement and heat exhaust.
 Third, research in the prediction and control of transient events that can bedeleterious to toroidal fusion plasma confinement will provide greater confidence inmachine designs with stable plasmas.
 Fourth, continued stewardship of discovery at the plasma science frontier that is not
expressly driven by the energy goal will address frontier plasma science issues
underpinning great mysteries of the visible universe and will help attract and retain a
new generation of plasma/fusion science leaders.
 Fifth, FES facilities will be kept world-leading through robust operations and regularupgrades.
12