Dear Colleagues,
The Office of Management and Budget has release the
President's requested budget for FY2012. An overview
can be found at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Overview/
The Budget advances the President's Plan for Science
and Innovation to double the budgets of key basic
research agencies, providing $5.4 billion for the
Office of Science.
Obligations by program activity are (in millions of
dollars):
2010 Actual CR 2012 est.
0001 Basic Energy Sciences 1,626 1,759 1,985
0002 Advanced Scientific
Computing Research 410 409 466
0003 Biological and
Environmental Research 603 603 717
0004 High Energy Physics 842 796 797
0005 Nuclear Physics 533 540 605
0006 Fusion Energy Sciences 434 365 400
0007 Science Laboratories
Infrastructure 131 123 112
0008 Science Program Direction 191 211 217
0009 Workforce Development for
Teachers and Scientists 33 35 36
0010 Safeguards and Security 82 85 84
0011 Small Business Innovation
Research 225 12 -
0012 Small Business Technology
Transfer 22 3 -
0013 Congressionally Directed
Projects 69 11 -
0091 Direct program activities,
subtotal 5,201 4,952 5,419
The amounts included for 2011 reflect the annualized level
provided by the continuing resolution (CR).
" High Energy Physics.-The high energy physics (HEP) program
aims to understand how our universe works at its most fundamental
level, by discovering the most elementary constituents
of matter and energy, probing the interactions between them,
and exploring the basic nature of space and time itself. The
program encompasses both experimental and theoretical particle
physics research and related advanced accelerator and detector
technology research and development (R&D). The primary mode
of experimental research involves the study of collisions of
energetic particles using large particle accelerators or
colliding beam facilities.
In addition to contributing to breakthrough scientific discoveries,
HEP research also makes major contributions to accelerator
technology and provides the expertise necessary for the expansion
of such technology into medicine, industry, and homeland security,
as well as materials, biology, and chemistry research using
light sources. One notable recent example is the Linac Coherent
Light Source, now operating at the SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory: the concept and proof-of-principle for this
state-of-the-art basic energy sciences facility grew out of
particle accelerator technology developed for the HEP program.
The HEP request supports the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
research program, including support for software and computing,
pre-operations and maintenance of the U.S. built systems that
are part of the LHC detectors, and accelerator commissioning
and accelerator physics studies using the LHC.
While the future trajectory of the worldwide HEP program
emphasizes the energy frontier, the proposed long-range program
will provide the U.S. with a balanced and diverse array of world-
leading efforts, including new facilities to ensure continued U.S.
leadership at the intensity and cosmic frontiers of exploration,
such as intense particle beams at Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory to probe rare and subtle particle interactions, or
ground and space-based observatories for understanding dark
energy and dark matter."
The full proposal can be found in the DOE request at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/doe.pdf#page=8
This is, of course, just the start of a very long
process...
Sincerely,
Norman Graf
