The SEAB National Laboratory Task Force has been charged to review studies of the DOE National Laboratories as they appear and to give you advice about what your response should be to their findings and recommendations. This Draft SEAB letter transmits the comments of its National Laboratories Task Force on the recently released report of the Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories (CRENEL), entitled Securing America’s Future: Realizing the Potential of the DOE’s National Laboratories. That committee, co-chaired by TJ Glauthier and Jared Cohen, was formed pursuant to Section 319 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law No. 113-76), and was charged to evaluate the laboratories’
“…alignment with the Department’s strategic priorities, duplication, ability to meet current and future energy and national security challenges, size, and support of other Federal agencies,…the efficiency and effectiveness of the laboratories, including assessing overhead costs and the impact of DOE’s oversight and management approach,…the effectiveness of the Department’s oversight approach and the extent to which LDRD funding supports recruiting and retention of qualified staff.”
