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Title: Securing America’s Future. Realizing the Potential of the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories

Abstract

The Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories are national assets that have contributed profoundly to the Nation’s security, scientific leadership, and economic competitiveness. In recognition of the continuing and evolving threats to our security and the dramatic increase in global economic and scientific competition, the laboratories are and will continue to be vitally important. Yet, the contributions of the National Laboratories are not inevitable, nor have they realized their full potential. This final report of the Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories recommends ways the laboratories could overcome challenges to more efficiently and effectively accomplish the work for which they are uniquely suited.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [9]
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  1. TJG Energy Associates, LLC, Bloomberg, VA (United States)
  2. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  3. U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Washington, DC (United States)
  4. Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (United States)
  5. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  6. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
  7. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  8. Covington and Burling LLP, Washington, DC (United States)
  9. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1235683
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

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Glauthier, T. J., Cohon, Jared L., Augustine, Norman R., Austin, Wanda M., Elachi, Charles, Fleury, Paul A., Hockfield, Susan J., Meserve, Richard A., and Murray, Cherry A.. Securing America’s Future. Realizing the Potential of the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.2172/1235683.
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Glauthier, T. J., Cohon, Jared L., Augustine, Norman R., Austin, Wanda M., Elachi, Charles, Fleury, Paul A., Hockfield, Susan J., Meserve, Richard A., & Murray, Cherry A.. Securing America’s Future. Realizing the Potential of the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories. United States. doi:10.2172/1235683.
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Glauthier, T. J., Cohon, Jared L., Augustine, Norman R., Austin, Wanda M., Elachi, Charles, Fleury, Paul A., Hockfield, Susan J., Meserve, Richard A., and Murray, Cherry A.. Fri . "Securing America’s Future. Realizing the Potential of the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories". United States. doi:10.2172/1235683. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1235683.
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@article{osti_1235683,
title = {Securing America’s Future. Realizing the Potential of the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories},
author = {Glauthier, T. J. and Cohon, Jared L. and Augustine, Norman R. and Austin, Wanda M. and Elachi, Charles and Fleury, Paul A. and Hockfield, Susan J. and Meserve, Richard A. and Murray, Cherry A.},
abstractNote = {The Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories are national assets that have contributed profoundly to the Nation’s security, scientific leadership, and economic competitiveness. In recognition of the continuing and evolving threats to our security and the dramatic increase in global economic and scientific competition, the laboratories are and will continue to be vitally important. Yet, the contributions of the National Laboratories are not inevitable, nor have they realized their full potential. This final report of the Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories recommends ways the laboratories could overcome challenges to more efficiently and effectively accomplish the work for which they are uniquely suited.},
doi = {10.2172/1235683},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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