Dear Colleagues,
 The President's FY 2008 budget proposal was announced Feb. 5.
You can find Secretary Bodman's review of the Department of Energy's
Request at:
 
http://www.energy.gov/news/4706.htm
 
Here is the synopsis for the office of Science:
 
"

Office of Science ($4.4 billion)

DOE's Office of Science is the single largest federal supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the nation and its $4.4 billion request will help ensure U.S. leadership across a broad range of scientific disciplines.  DOE's Office of Science budget also incorporates $428 million in funding for basic research in nuclear fusion, including the international fusion energy experimental reactor agreement, known as ITER; $340 million for the Advanced Scientific Computing Research to sustain DOE's position as world leader in civilian computing power; $158 million for operations of the Tevatron at Fermilab for collider and neutrino physics programs; and $146.5 million for operations of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider to provide an idea of conditions of the very early universe.  DOE's FY 2008 request includes $75 million for three innovative Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research in the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels and make biofuel
production cost-effective on a national scale to meet the President's goals.

"

The full set of budget documents can be found at or linked from:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/

Details for the Department of Energy can be found at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/pdf/appendix/doe.pdf

 

The bottom line (in millions of dollars) for HEP is:

2006 actual                 2007 est.             2008 est.

  701                              733                       782

 

As for the ILC:

"

The HEP request also develops the most compelling new

scientific opportunities for the U.S. HEP program in the next

decade, including $60 million of R&D for a potential international

linear collider, enabling a U.S. leadership role in

a comprehensive, coordinated international R&D program.

While the future trajectory of the HEP program has a strong

emphasis on linear collider R&D, it will also provide a diverse

array of other world-leading efforts, including the understanding

of dark energy, strong U.S. participation in Large

Hadron Collider physics, and forefront neutrino experiments

and facilities. Accelerator technology R&D will be increasingly

focused on superconducting radio frequency structures in view

of their potentially wide applicability to many scientific disciplines.

"

As you all know, this is just the start of a long process (the Senate
is expected to take up the remaining FY 07 bills this week).
 
 
Norman Graf