FY 2007 Budget
Authority, B/A, Dollars in Thousands
(from FY 2007 column of FY 2009 President's Budget Request )
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All
22 CRAs (948 KB; 74 pages)
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Materials
Sciences and Engineering Division
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FY 2007
|
CRA
Files
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CRA
Title |
42,720 |
PDF |
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics |
23,208 |
PDF |
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics |
12,626 |
PDF |
Mechanical
Behavior and Radiation Effects |
25,964 |
PDF |
Physical
Behavior of Materials |
38,943 |
PDF |
Neutron and X-Ray Scattering
(includes CRA that follows) |
|
PDF |
Ultrafast Science
and Instrumentation
(budget included above) |
23,021 |
PDF |
Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopies |
7,280 |
PDF |
EPSCoR |
15,592 |
PDF |
Synthesis
and Processing Science |
46,439 |
PDF |
Materials Chemistry
(budget combined with CRA below) |
46,439 |
PDF |
Biomolecular Materials
(budget combined with CRA above) |
Scientific
User Facilities Division
|
FY 2007
|
CRA
Files
|
CRA
Title |
506,177 |
PDF |
Neutron and X-Ray
Scattering Facilities |
92,922 |
PDF |
Nanoscience
Science Research Centers |
8,040 |
PDF |
Electron-beam Microcharacterization Centers |
1,476 |
PDF |
Accelerator and
Detector Research |
Chemical
Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
|
FY 2007
|
CRA
Files
|
CRA
Title |
18,112 |
PDF |
Atomic,
Molecular, and Optical Sciences |
33,877 |
PDF |
Chemical Physics Research |
30,603 |
PDF |
Solar Photochemistry |
28,925 |
PDF |
Energy Biosciences Research
(Photosynthetic
Systems;
Physical
Biosciences) |
39,711 |
PDF |
Catalysis
Science |
15,860 |
PDF |
Separations
and Analysis |
9,427 |
PDF |
Heavy
Element Chemistry |
21,392 |
PDF |
Geosciences
Research |
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More Information: BES Core Research Activities
A
primary reason that the BES organization was
formed in June
1977 was to link federally-funded fundamental research to
energy technologies. For BES research to be
relevant to
the DOE technology programs that fund R&D towards specific
near-to-mid-term needs, it is very important to maintain
strong, continual coordination activities between BES and
other DOE program offices. The intrinsic dissimilarity of
research objectives—that the expansive goals of basic
research are to understand the fundamentals of phenomena in
general, whereas the focused goals of applied research and
development are to gain and apply knowledge to achieve
specific requirements—represents the primary challenge of
meaningfully integrating R&D within DOE. (See the
definitions
of basic research, applied research, and development.)
To meet the challenge of supporting basic research programs
that are also energy relevant, BES manages portfolio
components that consist of distinct Core Research Activities
(CRAs), which align with BES
organizational and
budget
structures. These CRAs are scientific disciplines that
address the knowledge base for many different energy
technologies.
All projects supported by BES must be of the highest
scientific quality as judged by independent, rigorous,
external peer review. For individual research projects
supported by BES, energy relevance is satisfied if the
research falls within the scope of a BES CRA.
The
factors that determine the scope and energy
relevance of BES CRAs include: |
(1) |
new
scientific opportunities as determined, in part,
by new ideas submitted in proposals and recent
scientific discoveries; |
(2) |
results of external program reviews and
international benchmarking activities of entire
fields or sub-fields, such as those performed by
the National Academy of Sciences; |
(3) |
reports from federally chartered Advisory
Committees (e.g., the
Basic Energy Sciences
Advisory Committee, BESAC); |
(4) |
in-depth topical workshops, conferences, and
contractor meetings of scientists, engineers,
and technologists from universities, federal
laboratories, and the private sector, sometimes
with DOE sponsorship and participation; |
(5) |
coordination and planning activities between DOE
programs (e.g., the Energy Materials
Coordination Committee, EMaCC), including
informal day-to-day contacts among program
managers; |
(6) |
interagency coordinating activities; |
(7) |
changing mission needs as described by OMB, OSTP,
DOE, and SC mission statements and strategic
plans; and |
(8) |
Congressional input. |
Planning and prioritization across the wide range
of scientific disciplines within BES are ongoing activities
that are more complex than those for a homogeneous program.
The
current portfolio of BES CRAs evolved over decades of such
influences and will continue to
change in response to future considerations. The
resultant BES CRAs are designed in their entirety to support
world-class basic research that (1) is at the forefront of
science with the potential to make transformational
discoveries, (2) is necessary for providing world-leading
scientific user facilities, and (3) provides new knowledge
for our Nation's energy security.
Each CRA contains research projects that support
the above three objectives to varying degrees, depending on
the scope and nature of the CRA. For example, an objective
of the Catalysis Science CRA is
to develop mechanistic understandings of the promotion of
chemical reactions. As a result of this research,
fundamental advances are being made in inorganic,
organometallic, porous, and nanomaterial synthesis; surface
and physical chemistry; organic chemistry; and chemical
technology. Major discoveries in this CRA can be
transformational, as recognized by the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for 2005 that was shared by BES-supported
researchers Richard R. Schrock and Robert H. Grubbs "for the
development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis."
Results from this CRA also provide new knowledge for our
Nation's energy security by having relevance to numerous DOE
technology efforts, such as reactions that model petroleum
or coal processing, hydrogen production and storage, fuel
cell conversion, automobile exhaust conversion, specialty
chemical synthesis, polymer synthesis, nanomaterials
synthesis, environmental remediation, and pollution
prevention.
The BES CRAs are structured as scientific disciplines,
rather than as technology areas, to facilitate the
cross-cutting nature of basic research and to align BES
programs with the Nation's best basic research performers,
who are typically organized by scientific disciplines at
universities and national laboratories. Further information
about the BES CRA's can be found in the above
CRA
write-ups. Each write-up contains sections entitled
Portfolio Description, Unique Aspects,
Relationship to Others, Significant Accomplishments,
Mission Relevance, and Scientific Challenges. |