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SCIENTIFIC
USER FACILITIES
The Office of Science oversees
the construction and operation of some of the
Nation's most advanced research and development
user facilities, located at national laboratories
and universities.
These state-of-the-art facilities are shared
with the science community worldwide and offer
some technologies and instrumentation that are
available nowhere else.
The Office of Science facilities include particle
and nuclear physics accelerators, synchrotron
light sources, neutron scattering facilities,
genome sequencing facilities, supercomputers,
and high-speed computer networks.
In the 2007 fiscal year, these facilities were used by more than 21,000 researchers from universities, national laboratories, private industry, and other federal science agencies.
FACILITIES
FOR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science leads the world in the conception, design, construction, and operation of large-scale research facilities.
In November 2003, in the landmark publication Facilities for the Future of Science: A Twenty-Year Outlook, DOE proposed a portfolio of 28 prioritized new scientific facilities and upgrades to current facilities spanning the scientific disciplines to ensure the U.S. retains its primacy in critical areas of science and technology well into the next century.
When it was published four years ago, the Facilities Outlook was the first long-range facilities plan prioritized across disciplines ever issued by a government science funding agency anywhere in the world.
An August 2007 DOE Office of Science publication, Four Years Later: An Interim Report on 'Facilities for the Future of Science: A Twenty-Year Outlook,' shows that the agency has made significant progress in deploying the scientific facilities and instruments that the United States needs to capture world scientific leadership, extend the frontiers of science, and support DOE's missions.
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