Capsule review of DOE research and development laboratories and field facilities. [Contains appendices which show employees by occupational field and academic degree, field reporting structure, and a list of facility acronyms and initialisms]

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:6926093

This report provides an overview of the unique complex of research, technical development, manufacturing, and administrative facilities that comprise the US Department of Energy (DOE) field installations. FY 1991 budget for the entire complex was over $15 billion. There are approximately 137,000 employees working within the complex. Approximately 4% of these are Federal employees; the remainder are employed and managed under contracts with industry and universities. Originating in the Manhattan Project of World War II, the DOE field facilities system has developed in several major directions. It includes the largest uranium enrichment and special nuclear materials production complex in the free world; its manufacturing facilities provide the nuclear devices for the national strategic defense system; and it develops the nuclear reactors that power the submarine fleet of the US Navy. Equally important is the growth of the scientific and technological capabilities of the system. The original concentration on nuclear physics has been broadened to encompass the entire spectrum of the fundamental sciences. Research in DOE laboratories now spans investigations into the nature of matter and chemical reactions, cosmology, the operation of biological cells, the process of genetic information coding, the ecosystem, the geosphers, mathematics and computing, and medicine. Nearly every area of basic scientific knowledge is represented in the research activities of the laboratories within the DOE field system. The 9 multiprogram laboratories and 21 program-dedicated laboratories accomplish the fundamental scientific work of the DOE field system and also the bulk of the research and development. They account for approximately 60% of the total field budget and employ nearly 69,000 people. More than ham of these are scientists, engineers, and technicians.

• Research Organization: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Science and Technology Advisor
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6926093
• Report Number(s): DOE/ST-0002P; ON: DE93003282
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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