1. Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
Perspectives on the Department of Energy Office of
Science - Issues and Opportunities in FY2006 and Beyond
April 4, 2005
2. • Innovation in science and technology is a key ingredient for the future
of the United States and given the rapidly developing competition
around the world – our past success is no guarantee for the future.
• The United States stands to be surpassed in areas of science
excellence and technology innovation by nations in both Asia and
Europe and there are clear indicators of these trends.
• Key ingredients in technology innovation include education, the
scientific/technical research workforce, and world leading research and
development. Together these couple to economic growth and national
competitiveness.
• The U.S. DOE Office of Science has a central role through its support
of the physical sciences, its world class suite of user facilities and its
orientation to strategic issues in energy and the environment, which are
so important for the coming decades.
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
3. Trends in Graduate Education
See also THE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION, “Innovation is America’s
Heartbeat”, www.futureofinnovation.org
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
4. Trends in Workforce
See also THE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION, “Innovation is America’s
Heartbeat”, www.futureofinnovation.org
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
5. Trends in Knowledge Creation and New Ideas
See also THE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION, “Innovation is America’s
Heartbeat”, www.futureofinnovation.org
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
6. Trends in Knowledge Creation and New Ideas
See also THE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION, “Innovation is America’s
Heartbeat”, www.futureofinnovation.org
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
7. Trends in R&D Investment
See also THE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION, “Innovation is America’s
Heartbeat”, www.futureofinnovation.org
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
8. Trends in High-Tech Economy
See also THE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION, “Innovation is America’s
Heartbeat”, www.futureofinnovation.org
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
9. Trends in High-Tech Economy
See also THE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION, “Innovation is America’s
Heartbeat”, www.futureofinnovation.org
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
10. The U.S. Response
See also THE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION, “Innovation is America’s
Heartbeat”, www.futureofinnovation.org
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
11. Top Five Government Research Organizations for:
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
The U.S. DOE is a Science Agency
Numbers are FY 2003 dollars in millions - Source: NSF -- Preliminary Federal
obligations for research, by agency and field of science and engineering: fiscal year
2003: Total Research by Agency and Field of Science and Engineering
Physical
Sciences
1. Energy (2,102)
2. NASA (1,026)
3. DOD (633)
4. NSF (615)
5. HHS (382)
1. DOD (3,5001)
2. NASA (2,443)
3. Energy (1,588)
4. NSF (571)
5. DOT (253)
Engineering
1. DOD (1032)
2. Energy (820)
3. NSF (607)
4. NASA (98)
5. Commerce (75)
Mathematics
& Computing
1. HHS (20,996)
2. USDA (1,537)
3. DOD (1,047)
4. NSF (490)
5. Energy (404)
Life
Sciences
14. Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
• DOE SC is the principal supporter of physical sciences
research and a major supporter of research in biological
sciences, mathematics, and computing in our country
• DOE SC has a major role in maintaining and building the
scientific workforce needed to sustain the US scientific
enterprise and meet challenging opportunities in the
future today about 15,000 Ph.D. students and
postdoctorals are directly supported by DOE
• DOE SC supports a large amount of basic peer-reviewed
research at our universities and national laboratories,
especially in the physical sciences and focused on DOE
mission needs, e.g. 60% of catalysis and 25% of
nanoscience research is DOE-supported
• DOE SC plans, builds, and operates our Nation's large
user facilities - many heavily used by NIH, NSF, DOD and
other federally and privately funded researchers as well
as industry >19,000 users/year
15. Not only do our economy and quality of life depend critically
on a vibrant R&D enterprise, but so too do our national and
homeland security. As the Hart-Rudman Commission on National
Security stated in 2001:
”the inadequacies of our systems of research and
education pose a greater threat to U.S. national security over
the next quarter century than any potential conventional war
that we might imagine.”
Office of Science
Advisory Committee Chairs
See also THE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION, “Innovation is America’s
Heartbeat”, www.futureofinnovation.org
