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Overview of the FY 2003 Budget Request for the Office of Science

Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee

February 25, 2002

Dr. James DeckerActing Director

Office of Science

 

The DOE FY 2003 Budget (in millions of dollars)

 

 

Organization FY 2002 Appropriation

FY 2003 Request

Difference

National Nuclear Security Administration

7,605 8,039 + 433 (6%)

Environment 7,228 7,397 + 169 (2%)

Science 3,288 3, 293 + 5 (0%)

Energy 2,457 2,2379 - 78 (-3%)

Other 757 809 + 52 (7%)

Total 21,335 21,917 + 582 (3%)

Emphasis of the FY 2003 Budget

• Science Thrust Areas:

• Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology ($133M, +$48M)

• Genomes to Life ($45M, +$20M)

• Climate Change Research Initiative ($3M, +$3M)

• Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing (SciDac) ($62M, +$5M)

• More Operating Time and New Instrumentation at User Facilities ($1,246M, +$40M)

• Improved Infrastructure ($43M, +6M)

Setting aside SNS and the one-time FY2002 projects, there is a 5% increase for Science.

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The FY 2003 Budget Request for the Federal Government has four Multi-Agency R&D Priorities:

 • Anti-terrorism R&D

• Networking and Information Technology R&D

• Nanotechnology R&D

• Climate Change R&D

 SC is contributing to all of these initiatives.

OFFICE OF SCIENCEFY 2003 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(B/A in thousands)

FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003Comparable Comparable President's

Approp. Approp. RequestSCIENCEBasic Energy Sciences……………………………………………………. 973,768 999,605 1,019,600 Advanced Scientific Computing Research…………………………………………… 161,296 157,400 169,625 Biological and Environmental Research………………………………….. 514,064 570,300 504,215 High Energy Physics………………………………………………. 695,927 713,170 724,990 Nuclear Physics……………………………………………………….. 351,794 359,035 382,370 Fusion Energy Sciences………………………………………………… 241,957 247,480 257,310 Energy Research Analyses………………………………………………….. 950 995 1,020 Science Laboratories Infrastructure…………………………………………… 26,887 37,130 42,735 Science Program Direction…………………………………………….. 139,861 152,475 139,479 Small Business Inn. Research and Technology Transfer………………………………… 93,069 - - Subtotal……………………………………………………………………….. 3,199,573 3,237,590 3,241,344

Safeguards and Security……………………………………………. 39,081 47,609 48,127 Reimbursable Work…………………………………………….. (4,648) (4,460) (4,383) Total Safeguards and Security………………………………………. 34,433 43,149 43,744 Total Science………………………………………………………………… 3,234,006 3,280,739 3,285,088

SC FY2003 Budget Request by Program

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One Time Projects FY 2003 Est.

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FusionEnergy Sciences

AdvancedScientific

ComputingResearch

HighEnergyPhysics

NuclearPhysics

ScienceFacilities

Infrastructure

Safeguards & Security

Program Direction

EnergyResearchAnalyses

Basic Energy SciencesResearch ($488M, +$37M)

• Science at the nanoscale: increased research in condensed matter physics and materials synthesis and processing.

• X-ray and neutron scattering: research and new instrumentation at the major user facilities.

• Other core research programs: heavy-element chemistry, separations and analysis, materials chemistry, photochemistry, combustion, and catalysis.

Facilities ($279M, +$10M)• New and upgraded instrumentation.• Continued high level of service at major user facilities.

Construction, Engineering & Design • Construction of the Spallation Neutron Source is fully

funded. ($211M, -$66M)• Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRC):

continue engineering & design at ORNL, LBNL, SNL/LANL. (PED $11M, +$8M)

• Begin construction of the NSRC at ORNL. ($24M, +$24M)

• The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC begins project engineering and design. ($6M, +$6M)

Advanced Photon Source

Artists conception of a neutron

scattering instrument

Neutron image of an iris behind granite blocks

Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs)Facilities for fabrication, assembly, and characterization of objects at the nanoscale

NSRCs are highly collaborative, multidisciplinary research centers and user facilities for the the fabrication and study of materials at the nanoscale.

Project Engineering and Design funding ($11M) is provided for three NSRCs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and Sandia National Laboratory (SNL)/Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Equipment and capabilities of the NSRCs are being determined based on input from the scientific user community. NSRCs at ORNL and SNL/LANL held widely advertised and heavily attended workshops (200-300 attendees) in 2001. A workshop for the NSRC at LBNL is scheduled for spring 2002.

Construction funding is provided for the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at ORNL ($24M). The facility will be collocated with the Spallation Neutron Source on Chestnut Hill at ORNL.

Nanofabrication Research Laboratory containing clean and environmentally controlled rooms; electron microscopes; nanoscale patterning (e-beam writer /lithography); facilities for manipulation and integration of soft and hard materials

“Wet” and “dry” materials synthesis and characterization labs; high-resolution scanning probe microscopes adjacent to Nanofabrication Research Laboratory; office space for staff and visitors

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The Center for Nanophase Materials SciencesA Nanoscale Science Research Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Neutron Science Opportunity to assume world leadership using unique

capabilities of neutron scattering to understand nanoscale materials and processes

Synthesis Science Science-driven synthesis will be the enabler of new

generations of advanced materials

Theory/Modeling/Simulation

Scientific thrusts will include 10 multidisciplinary research focus areas proposed by the scientific community and chosen by the Scientific Advisory Committee

Access to other major ORNL facilities Spallation Neutron Source High-Flux Isotope Reactor

Specializing in neutron science, synthesis science, and theory/modeling/simulation

Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

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Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) ProjectThe LCLS is a proposed Fourth Generation Light Source – an x-ray free electron laser (FEL) – that will serve as a research and development center in the hard x-ray regime and as a facility for experimental studies of structure and function of chemical, physical, and biological systems.

• Time averaged brightness2-4 orders of magnitude greater than 3rd generation sources.

• Peak brightness 10 orders of magnitude greater than 3rd generation sources.

• 230 fs pulses initially -- shorter to be developed.

• Transversely coherent radiation.

Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences ($167M, +$13M)

• Supports operation of supercomputer and network facilities available to researchers 24-7-365:– National Energy Research Scientific Computing

Center (NERSC),– Advanced Computing Research Testbeds, and– Energy Sciences Network (ESNet).

• Scientific Computing Research Investments:– Applied Mathematics,– Computer Science, and– Advanced Computing Software Tools.

• High Performance Networking, Middleware and Collaboratory Research Investments:– Networking,– Collaboratory Tools, and– National Collaboratory Pilot Projects.

Laboratory Technology Research ($3M, +$0M)

Advanced Scientific Computing Research

NERSC IBM SP RS/6000—"Seaborg"

ESNet

modeling turbulent combustion

Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computation (SciDAC)

• SciDAC brings the power of tera-scale computing and information technologies to several scientific areas -- breakthroughs through simulation.

• SciDAC is building community simulation models through collaborations among application scientists, mathematicians and computer scientists -- research tools for plasma physics, climate prediction, combustion, etc.

Topical Computing (TC)• FY03 increases will reconfigure some resources at existing facilities around TC concept.

• These facilities will support applications communities to develop the operational model.

• Full-scale TC facilities will be proposed in FY-04.

•State-of-the-art electronic collaboration tools will facilitate the access of these tools to the broader scientific community to bring simulation to a level of parity with theory & observation in the scientific enterprise.

Biological & Environmental Research

Research • Genomes to Life will enable revolutionary

advances in energy supply, greenhouse gas mitigation, and environmental cleanup. ($37M, +$15M)

• Bioterrorism detection/defeat. ($3M, +$1M)

• The Human Genome Program will provide high quality complete sequence of Chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. ($90M, +$2M)

• Climate Change Research underpins the President’s initiative. Research and observations will improve climate models and understanding of the global carbon cycle. ($126M, +$6M)

• Climate Change Research Initiative. ($3M, $3M)

• The Environmental Management Science Program is transferred from the Office of Environmental Management. ($30M, -$7M)

• Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. ($5M, -$5M)

• Continue joint research that combines capabilities of DOE’s advanced biological and computational sciences programs.

• Support DNA sequencing of microbes closely related to potential bio-threat agents.

• Determine the composite DNA sequence and functional capability of microbes in a complex microbial community to address DOE energy, environmental, and national security needs.

• Begin the complex task of characterizing all of the multi-protein molecular machines and their associated regulatory networks in microbes of importance to DOE's energy, environmental, and national security missions.

• $15M increase enables full funding for up to 4 multidisciplinary, multi institutional research teams at universities and national labs needed to address the 4 goals of Genomes to Life.

Genomes to Life builds on advances in sequencing, molecular science and computing to understand and eventually harness microbes and microbial communities to address DOE’s energy, environmental and national security missions. In FY 2003 we will:

Genomes to Life

Climate Change Research Initiative

• Expand AmeriFlux facilities to quantify regional- and continental-scale carbon sinks and enable flux measurements in locations that correspond with planned campaigns to estimate regional carbon fluxes.

• Expand measurements at existing AmeriFlux facilities to independently verify estimates of net carbon exchange.

• Enhance user facilities for carbon cycle research.

• Expected outcomes include:

– Quantification of the location and magnitude of the North American carbon sink and identification of environmental factors affecting the sink.

– Information on how to enhance carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems through purposeful management.

CCRI is a multi-agency activity to address specific high priority climate change uncertainties. In FY 2003 we will:

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Science and Enabling R&D ($179M, +$5M)

• Innovation in fusion energy, plasma science and related technologies are part of the Administration’s National Energy Policy.

• Explore innovative approaches to confining, heating, and fueling plasmas.

Facilities ($68M, -$6M)• Significantly increase operating time on three

national fusion facilities to resolve issues in energy transport and plasma stability, using a variety of heating techniques.

Fabrication, Engineering & Design ($11M, +$11M)

• Expand concept innovation with fabrication of the new National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

–TEC ~ $69M, Operation 2007

Fusion Energy Sciences

Alcator C- MOD

National SphericalTorus Experiment

DIII-D

Magnetic Fusion Energy Simulation

High Energy Physics

B-Factory Detector at SLAC

Research & Technology ($258M, +$14M)

• Emphasize the window of opportunity for answering two key questions about matter and energy:

– The origin of mass - the Higgs Boson?

– The absence of antimatter in the Universe – Charge-Parity Violation?

• Increase support for university scientists collaborating on high-priority experiments

Facilities ($446M, -$11M)

• Enhance capabilities for Tevatron Run II at Fermilab.

• Increase operating time and capability upgrades for the B-Factory at SLAC.

Construction ($20M, +$9M)

• Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI)

Collision event from CDF at Fermilab

Nuclear Physics Highest Priority Given to Enhancing User Facility Operations

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF)

Low Energy Nuclear Physics ($66M, +$4M)• Structure of nuclei, nuclear reaction mechanisms, and

fundamental symmetries – including neutrino oscillations.

Medium Energy Nuclear Physics ($124M, +$6M)• Nature’s fundamental building blocks – quarks & gluons

– how they bind together to form the protons & neutrons of atomic nuclei.

– Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at TJNAF

Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics ($168M, +$12M)• Properties of nuclear matter over range of conditions

created in nucleus-nucleus collisions. • Attempt to synthesize an extreme form of matter that

only existed for a fraction of a second at the Big Bang – the Quark-Gluon Plasma.

– Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven

Nuclear Theory ($24M, +$2M)• Characteristics of atomic nuclei and nuclear matter and

the fundamental forces involved.

Infrastructure

• Challenge: aging facilities at ten science laboratories.

• The FY 2003 budget increases funding for critical infrastructure improvements and supports removal of excess facilities.

– Line Item Construction ($33M, +$10M)

– Payment in Lieu of Taxes ($1M, +$0M)

– Oak Ridge Landlord ($5M, +$1M)

– Excess Facilities Disposition ($5M, -$5M)

• These vital funds position DOE to provide world class science in the 21st century, while reducing the costly footprint of worn-out or obsolete buildings/utility systems.

The growing importance of management to Science’s programs:

The President’s Management Agenda

Jack Marburger, AAAS, Feb. 15, 2002

“ . . . The President’s budget makes much of management, and proposes many measures that are not particularly designed to save money so much as to optimize its impact . . . the growth in opportunity requires better decision making.

I support these science management initiatives because I believe they are essential to reassure the public – our ultimate sponsors – that the ever increasing investment in science is being made wisely. This is particularly true for the physical sciences whose long run of support during the Cold War was linked, correctly or not, to national security concerns. Although the relevance of physics to national security is no less now than then, the end of the Cold War brought with it a reassessment of the rationale for funding physical science, especially at the national laboratories. This reassessment has left society more skeptical about the national security argument, and agencies that support this work, particularly the Department of Energy, are working hard to clarify mission and provide strong rationales for their work. The president’s budget features a management pilot program at DOE that takes advantage of the wide range of research conducted in this agency.”

• The President’s Management Agenda of August 2001 and the FY 2003 Budget Request place priority on budgeting and managing all Federal programs for results. • The Administration is focusing on improving the performance of all R&D programs. • For DOE, preparation of the FY 2004 budget will base investment decisions on transparent investment criteria.  

The Administration is using the DOE Energy programs as a pilot to develop investment criteria for applied R&D programs.

 The Administration also recognizes that the goals and methods of basic research are different from those for applied R&D, and is working to define an appropriate set of criteria.

Program Assessment

Explanation

National Nuclear Security Administration—Naval Reactors

Effective Outputs are identifiable and make key contributions to national security. Delivery schedules are consistently met. Contracts have positive and negative incentives, and include performance requirements

National Nuclear Security Administration—Weapons Activities

Moderatelyeffective

Certifies safety and reliability of nuclear weapons stockpile and maintains a high-quality scientific capability. However, it needs to improve its long-range planning and resource allocation process and better link stockpile requirements to available resources.

Defense Environmental Restoration and Environmental Management

Ineffective

Many sites are behind schedule for cleanup. Completion costs are escalating. “Compliance agreements,” signed before the breadth of problems was known, make it difficult to effectively manage the program.

Office of Science Effective

Supports world-class basic research. Effectively operates a large suite of scientific user facilities.

Fossil Energy R&D Ineffective

Broad mission, lack of investment criteria and unmeasurable

performance goals allow for funding of virtually any project. This leads to corporate subsidies. Program has contributed little to improving the prospects for new energy technology.

Nuclear Energy,

Science and

Technology

Ineffective

Resists competitive, peer-reviewed research awards. Resource allocation does not support priorities identified by external experts

How is SC Measuring Up?

Source: The Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2003, U.S. Department of Energy: Status Report on Selected Programs:

The BESAC report on performance measurement is timely.

It will help SC integrate the SC budget with performance measures.

It will inform the discussion at the Workshop on Investment Criteria for Basic Research, Feb. 27, 2001, sponsored by the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy (COSEPUP) of the National Academy of Sciences.

It can inform future management reviews.