SLAC Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program: FY2014 Annual Report

Technical Report · Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1177414· OSTI ID:1177414

Hartney, Mark ^[1]

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1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

The Department of Energy (DOE) and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) encourage innovation, creativity, originality and quality to maintain the Laboratory’s research activities and staff at the forefront of science and technology. To further advance the Laboratory’s scientific research capabilities, the Laboratory allocates a portion of its funds for the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program. With DOE guidance, the LDRD program enables SLAC scientists to make rapid and significant contributions to seeding new strategies for solving important national science and technology problems. The LDRD program is conducted using existing research facilities. The project proposals can be characterized as: Small-scale research and development activities or pilot projects; Bench-scale research projects; and Information gathering, computer modeling, conceptual design and feasibility studies. In addition to building new core competencies that support the DOE missions, the LDRD project proposals may also conduct scientific research and development that support the missions of other federal agencies and/or non-federal sponsors. In FY2014, SLAC continued to see some of the previously funded LDRD programs transition to follow on funding with the Office of Science, (including an Early Career Award), EERE and other agencies such as DARPA and NIH. This external validation shows that the projects selected were important to continuing forefront science and use-inspired applications with mission relevance and demonstrates they were delivering significant results. Annual reports for the FY14 project activities are included in this report.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 1177414
• Report Number(s): SLAC-R-1051
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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