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.