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It's Budget Time Again
Science, Security and Energy: Powering the 21st Century
DOE has submitted its FY 2000 budget request to Congress for $17.8 billion, an increase of 4.1 percent -- $717 million - over this years' budget.
The DOE budget is organized into four areas: Science and Technology ($2.8 billion, an increase of $138 million); National Security ($6.2 billion, an increase of $244 million); Energy Resources ($2.3 billion, an increase of $213 million); and Environmental Quality ($6.5 billion, an increase of $114 million).
Office of Science Budget Request
Under the FY 2000 request, the Office of Science would get $2,835.4 million, an increase of 5.1 percent over the FY 1999 funding. Martha Krebs, director of the Office of Science, characterized the request by saying "the bottom line…is a pretty good one." It sustains real growth for DOE science, it supports a major role in information technology, and it delivers new capability and increased utilization at the scientific user facilities, she said.
To play a major role in a new Presidential initiative "Information Technology for the Twenty-First Century," the Department is proposing to invest $70 million to develop and deploy far faster supercomputers for advanced simulation technologies. The new "Scientific Simulation Initiative," or "SSI," will allow scientists to dramatically shorten research times in areas such as cleaner, more efficient automobiles, the discovery of new medicines, weather forecasting, and predicting climate change.
Other highlights of the budget request are
continued investment in the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This state of the art neutron scattering facility will conduct research in the areas of physical, chemical, materials, biological and medical sciences.
support for a number of scientific user facilities that are new or just coming into operation. These are the Fermi Lab Main Injector near Chicago; the B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in California; the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven Lab on Long Island; the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia Livermore Lab in California; and the National Spherical Torus Experiment in Princeton, New Jersey.
continue to provide the science for the President's Climate Change Technology Initiative. This includes an increase in carbon management science to find ways to sequester carbon, with potential applications for greenhouse gas reduction. The Office of Science will also participate in the U.S. Global Climate Research Program.
participation in the Administration's Next Generation Internet by developing and deploying new technologies for the wide area, data intensive collaborations that advance the DOE mission.
$10.9 million for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for the experimental treatment of cancer patients, and $24.7 million for radiopharmaceuticals research to explore new medical treatments.
a $10 million increase for science education to support tomorrow's science professionals: $4.5 million in the undergraduate research fellowships program in the National Science Bowl and in the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship, $5 Million in the K-12 teachers initiative, and $5 million in the undergraduate faculty-student teams initiative.
Congress will begin hearings on the FY 2000 budget in March. For more information, visit the DOE and Office of Science websites.
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 Office of Science FY 2000 Budget Request (click to view full size graph)
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