tions of the Senate a report examining whether the 
system described in this section should be established 
as a National User Facility. 
‘‘(j) TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT.—The Director shall 
support a technology research program for the development 
of instrumentation and other research tools required to meet 
the missions of the Department and to provide platform 
technologies for the broader scientific community. Tech-
nologies shall include but are not limited to— 
‘‘(1) cryo-electron microscopy; 
‘‘(2) fabricated ecosystems; 
‘‘(3) next generation sensors including quantum 
sensors for biological integration and bioproduction; 
‘‘(4) technologies to accelerate data analysis; and 
‘‘(5) plant and microbial phenotyping for gene 
discovery. 
‘‘(k) EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish 
within the Biological and Environmental Research 
program an initiative focused on the development of 
engineered ecosystems through the application of arti-
ficial intelligence, novel sensing capabilities, and 
other emerging technologies. 
‘‘(2) INTERAGENCY
COORDINATION.—The Sec-
retary shall coordinate with the Director of the Na-
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tional Science Foundation, the Administrator of the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, and other 
relevant officials to avoid duplication of research and 
observational activities and to ensure that activities 
carried out under this initiative are complimentary 
to those currently being undertaken by other agencies. 
‘‘(3) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide a 
report to the Committee on Science, Space, and Tech-
nology of the House, and the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the Senate, on the activity 
mandated in subsection (k). 
‘‘(l) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out 
the activities described in this section— 
‘‘(1) $820,360,000 for fiscal year 2022; 
‘‘(2) $886,385,200 for fiscal year 2023; 
‘‘(3) $956,332,164 for fiscal year 2024; 
‘‘(4) $1,020,475,415 for fiscal year 2025; and 
‘‘(5) $1,099,108,695 for fiscal year 2026.’’. 
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SEC. 5. ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING RESEARCH 
PROGRAM. 
(a) ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING RESEARCH.— 
Section 304 of the Department of Energy Research and In-
novation Act (42 U.S.C. 18642) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (a) through (c) 
as subsections (b) through (d), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting before subsection (b), as so redes-
ignated, the following: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—As part of the activities author-
ized under section 209 of the Department of Energy Organi-
zation Act (42 U.S.C. 7139), the Director shall carry out, 
in coordination with academia and relevant public and 
private sector entities, a research, development, and dem-
onstration program to— 
‘‘(1) steward applied mathematics, computa-
tional science, and computer science research relevant 
to the missions of the Department and the competi-
tiveness of the United States; 
‘‘(2) develop modeling, simulation, and other 
computational tools relevant to other scientific dis-
ciplines and to the development of new energy tech-
nologies and other technologies; 
‘‘(3) advance computating and networking capa-
bilities for data-driven discovery; and 
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‘‘(4) develop advanced scientific computing hard-
ware and software tools for science and engineering.’’; 
(3) in subsection (c) (as redesignated under 
paragraph (1))— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The Director’’ and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(1) DIRECTOR.—The Director’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) COORDINATION.—The Under Secretary for 
Science shall ensure the coordination of the activities 
of the Department, including activities under this sec-
tion, to determine and meet the computational and 
networking research and facility needs of the Office of 
Science and all other relevant energy technology and 
energy efficiency programs within the Department 
and with other Federal agencies as appropriate.’’; 
(4) by amending subsection (d), as so redesig-
nated, to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND SOFTWARE DEVEL-
OPMENT FOR HIGH-END COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND COM-
PUTER SCIENCES RESEARCH.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall carry out 
activities to develop, test, and support— 
‘‘(A) mathematics, statistics, and algo-
rithms for modeling complex systems relevant to 
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the missions of the Department, including on ad-
vanced computing architectures; and 
‘‘(B) tools, languages, programming envi-
ronments, and operations for high-end com-
puting systems (as defined in section 2 of the 
American Super Computing Leadership Act (15 
U.S.C. 5541). 
‘‘(2) PORTFOLIO BALANCE.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Director shall 
maintain a balanced portfolio within the ad-
vanced scientific computing research and devel-
opment program established under section 976 of 
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16316) 
that supports robust investment in— 
‘‘(i) applied mathematical, computa-
tional, and computer sciences research needs 
relevant to the mission of the Department, 
including foundational areas that are crit-
ical to the advancement of energy sciences 
and technologies and new and emerging 
computing technologies; and 
‘‘(ii) associated high-performance com-
puting hardware and facilities. 
‘‘(B) 
EXASCALE
ECOSYSTEM 
SUSTAINMENT.— 
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