Comment of: AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science, analyseerde het USA-S&T-beleid in) Science and Technology Yearbook (feb) 2001. Source: Http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rd/yrbk01.htm

· Technology Budget 2001 (TN2000-06); Source: Http://www.technieuws.org/cgi-twa/twa.pl/Washington/1484.html

II Overall budget

At http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rd/status731a.pdf

III Large Scale Facilities

Your U.S.A. Federal / All States search at http://www.firstgov.gov. for "LSF, Large Scale Facility " returned 69 relevant results:

Sciences

Ø ANL (Argonne National Laboratory,http://www.anl.gov/)

Today, the laboratory has about 4,200 employees, including about 1,500 scientists and engineers, of whom about 700 hold doctorate degrees. Argonne's annual operating budget of about $465 million supports more than 200 research projects, ranging from studies of the atomic nucleus to global climate change research. Since 1990, Argonne has worked with more than 600 companies and numerous federal agencies and other organizations

· Acoustic Leak Detection Laboratory

· Acoustic/Ultrasonic Laboratory

· Advanced Materials Fabrication Facility

· Advanced Photon Source

· Advanced Powertrain Test Facility

· Advanced Simulation and Control Laboratory

· Alpha-Gamma Hot Cell Facility

· Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

· Aqueous, Gaseous and Liquid Metal Corrosion Facility

· Argonne Guest House

· Argonne Liquid Metal Experiment (ALEX)

· Argonne Wakefield Accelerator

· Argonne Tandem-Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS)

· Atmospheric Field Measurement Facility

· Auto Shredder Residue Laboratory

· Basic Energy Sciences Synchrotron Radiation Center

· Battery Analysis and Diagnostics Laboratory

· Bioprocessing and Waste Treatment Laboratory

· Center for Computational Science and Technology

· Ceramics and Composites Processing Laboratory

· Cobalt-60 Source (50,000 curies)

· Contaminated Materials Laboratory Diesel Engine Test Facility

· District Heating and Cooling Simulator

· Dry Room Fabrication and Examination Facility

· Electrochemical Energy Storage Engineering Workstation Network

· Facility for High-Sensitivity Magnetization Measurements

· Flow-Induced Vibration Test Facility

· Flow Loops Flow Rheology and Measurement Instrumentation

· Flow Visualization Systems

· Froth Flotation Separation Pilot Facility

· Fuel Cell Test Facility

· Harmonic Compactor Laboratory

· Heat Transfer Test Apparatus

· High-Pressure Fluidized Bed Combustor

· High-Temperature Fatigue, Crack Propagation and Mechanical Properties

Testing Laboratory

· High-Voltage Electron Microscope-Tandem Facility

· Hot Fuel Examination Facility

· Inert Atmosphere Diagnostic Analysis Facility

· Infrared Imaging Laboratory

· In-Service Inspection Eddy Current Laboratory

· Intense Pulsed Neutron Source

· Irradiated Materials Laboratory

· Low-Velocity Water Channel

· Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility

· Micro-mass Spectrometer Laboratory

· Millimeter Wave Laboratory

· Mixing Components Test Facility

· Neutron Radiography Reactor

· Non-Destructive Evaluation Laboratories

· Planetary Boundary Layer Facility

· Plastics/Organic Chemistry Laboratory

· Premium Coal Sample Facility

· RDT&E Dilute Facility

· Reactor Simulation Facility

· Safety Analysis Training Center

· Slurry Heat Transfer Facility

· Steam Generator Test Facility

· Small Channel Flow and Heat-Transfer Test Facility

· Structural Biology Center

· Superconductive Ceramic Processing and Applications Laboratory

· Surface Engineering Laboratory

· Thermal Science Laboratory

· Transportation Technology R&D Center

· Tribology Laboratory

· Unvented Waste Reactor

· 3-D Microfocus X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory

· 2-MeV Van de Graaff Accelerator

· 3-MeV Van de Graaff Accelerator

· 5-MV Dynamitron Facility

· State of the Lab "State of the Laboratory" speech, delivered on Sept. 23, 1998 adds to this lis (http://www.anl.gov:80/OPA/local/sol_archives/sol98.htm:)

· MINOS, for Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search. The project couples Fermilab's ability to generate streams of neutrinos with Argonne's ability to detect them at our Soudan mine facility in Minnesota

· An equally exotic device, the $20 million Gammasphere, has been operating at ATLAS since the beginning of the year. It is the premier detector in the world for high-resolution nuclear gamma ray spectroscopy. Essentially, it is a gammaray microscope.

· Spallation Neutron Source — or SNS; Our other partners in SNS are Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, and of course Oak Ridge.

· WIT — an Argonne-developed system called "What Is There?" for the metabolic reconstruction of bacteria, is used to predict functional coupling between gene clusters.

· GOC -global optimization code; is proving a superior approach for solving protein structure problems.

· The ManyWorlds shared virtual reality system, the Voyager collaborative space recording and playback engine, and CAVE tools were demonstrated live on an astrophysical application in a week-long international meeting last October 1998;

· ALICE — for Advanced Large-scale Integrated Computational Environment — which integrates numerical, visualization, and steering software

· ANL Institutional Plan, October 2000, III. Science and Technology Strategic Plan, D. R&D Area Strategic Plans 3. Environmental Technologies a. Electrometallurgical Technology b. EBR-II Termination c. Radioactive and Mixed Waste Treatment Technologies d. D&D Technology e. Energy and Environmental.. URL: http://www.ipd.anl.gov:80/aim/instplan/ip00-305.html Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:54:31 GMT Size: 61948 bytes.

· Data Acquisition and Control System for Samsung Superconductor Test Facility International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, 1999, Trieste, Italy... URL: http://www.aps.anl.gov:80/conferences/mirrored/www.elettra.trieste.it/sites/icalepcs99/proceedings/papers/tc1p70.pdfDate: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 13:25:04 GMT Size: 117129 bytes.

· p064.PDF Construction of the Central Control System for the Large Helical Device (LHD) Fusion Experiment K. Yamazaki, H. Yamada, K.Y. Watanabe, K. Nishimura, S. Yamaguchi, M. Shoji, S. Sakakibara, J.... URL: http://www.aps.anl.gov:80/icalepcs97/paper97/p064.pdf Date:Mon, 11 May 1998 16:45:26 GMT Size: 156991 bytes.

Sciences

Ø LBL (The Berkely Laboratory, at http://www.lbl.gov/)

which stresses collaboration in everything we do, includes 15 divisions that are organized within the areas of Computing Sciences, Energy Sciences, Biosciences, General Sciences, and Resources and Operations. Berkeley Lab is located on the hillside above one of the world's great universities -- the University of California at Berkeley. Altogether, we have some 4,000 employees, of which about 800 are students. Each year, the Lab also hosts more than 2,000 participating guests. We are managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

The Laboratory's annual budget for the 1997-8 fiscal year is approximately $389 million.

Een quickscan (vanaf 1-1-2001) voor Large Scale Facility respectievelijk Facility leverde op:

· Berkeley Lab Scientific Programs & National User Facilities

· Accelerator and Fusion Research Division: LHC Project

· The Wide Area Large Data Object Architecure Page (WALDO) Page

· Division Review 2000, Ashok Gadgil: Pollutant Dispersion in Large Indoor Spaces

· Large Einsteinium Activation Project (LEAP) LBNL Image Library

· Large storage sites for RNA splicing proteins LBNL Image Library

· Supernova 1987A in the Large Megallanic Cloud LBNL Image Library

· Division Review 2000, Ashok Gadgil: Pollutant Dispersion in Large Indoor Spaces

· The National Tritium Labelling Facility, Berkeley CA USA

· Infrared Thermography Laboratory

· IRLab Thermography

· Environmental Energy Technologies Division Web Page

· Health Services in new Medical Facility LBNL Image Library

· Diagram of High-energy Heavy Ion Facility (Bevalac) LBNL Image Library

· Collider Detector Facility, hadron calorimeter LBNL Image Library

· IRLab Thermography

and

· The National Tritium Labelling Facility, Berkeley CA USA

· high altitude particle astronomy group (balloon project), balloon launch at ...

· Construction of neutral beam test facility LBNL Image Library

· Oak Ridge facilities circa 1943 LBNL Image Library

· FACILITIES FOR EXPLORING MOLECULAR BIOLOGY DATABASES ON THE WEB: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

· World Record Magnet (Press statement 5 july 2001; 300,000 times as strong as the Earth's magnetic field.)

· Lilliputian Laser (Press statement 5 july 2001: One-Thousandth The Diameter Of A Human Hair”)

Energy

Ø NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center ) http://www.nersc.gov/

is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC provides high-performance computing tools and expertise that enable computational science of scale, in which large, interdisciplinary teams of scientists attack fundamental problems in science and engineering that require massive calculations and have broad scientific and economic impacts.

· a new benchmark test to assess Effective System Performance

· IBM RS/6000 SP,

· Cray T3E,

· PVP cluster

· IBM RS/6000 SP

· Cray T3E-900

· parallel vector processing (PVP) cluster consisting of three Cray SV1s

· Sun UltraSPARC-II for numerical and statistical processing

· Silicon Graphics Onyx 2 for scientific visualization from remote locations;

· mass storage capacity of 880 terabytes

· upgraded the storage servers to IBM SP2s with HPSS (High Performance Storage System);

· PDSF (Parallel Distributed Systems Facility).

· PC Cluster Project,

· Access to NERSC from anywhere in the U.S. or the world is available through ESnet, which provides OC-12 bandwidth to NERSC and Argonne National Laboratory, T3 bandwidth on major backbone links, and T1 links over much of the rest of its coverage area;

· In November 2000, NERSC's computing and storage systems moved from Berkeley Lab's main site to the Oakland Scientific Facility in downtown Oakland (click here for interactive map).

Oceanography

Ø NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

http://www.noaa.gov/sitemap.html

charting, navigation, climate, coasts, fisheries, ocean, weather and research laboratories like

· Aeronomy Lab

· Air Resources Lab

· Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Lab

· Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Lab

· Climate Diagnostics Center

· Environmental Technology Lab

· Forecast Systems Lab

· Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab

· Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab

· Pacific Marine Environmental Lab

· Severe Storms Lab

· Space Environment Center

research satellites

· Archived Satellite Images, Storm Animations and Special Events

· CoastWatch Program and Products

· CoastWatch Satellite Images

· Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service

· Geostationary and Polar-orbiting Satellites - What Are They?

· GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites

· High-resolution Satellite Images for the Media

· Latest Satellite Imagery

· Operational Significant Events Imagery Server - Images of Fires, storms, etc., from around the world

· POES - Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellites

· Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide

· Research and Applications

· Satellite Active Archive

· Satellite Data Processing and Distribution

· Satellite Operations

· Satellite Visualizations - 3-D Images

· Search and Rescue Satellite-aided Tracking

· Sea Surface Temperatures

· Sea Surface Temperatures Polar Orbiting Satellite Experimental Products

· Systems Development

PM High Performance Computing Study http://newnos.nos.noaa.gov/sc/hpc/

Sciences

LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory) http://www.lanl.gov

is a Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory, managed by the University of California. The Laboratory is one of the largest multidisciplinary institutions in the world. It is the largest institution and the largest employer in Northern New Mexico with approximately 6,800 University of California employees plus approximately 2,800 contractor personnel. Our annual budget is approximately $1.2 billion.

http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/organization/

· Advanced Computing Laboratory (ACL) –

· CCS-1: Advanced Computing –

· Center for Direct Chemical Analysis –

· Center for Human Genome Studies –

· Center for International Security Affairs (CISA) –

· Center for Materials Science –

· Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) –

· Center for Space Science and Exploration –

· Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) –

· Los Alamos Seismic Research Center (LASRC) –

· National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) –

· Superconductivity Technology Center (STC) –

· Accelerator Radio-Frequency Structures/Superconducting Test and Fabrication Laboratory –

· Acoustic Characterization Facility –

· Advanced Free Electron Laser Facility –

· Advanced Oxidation Laboratory –

· Advanced Testing Line for Actinide Separation (ATLAS) –

· Advanced X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory –

· Amorphous Alloys Laboratory –

· Antenna and Pulse Power Outdoor Test Range User Facility –

· Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet User Facility –

· Center for Advanced Engineering Technology –

· Clean Laboratory and Mass Spectrometry Facility –

· Combustion-Driven Supersonic Flow Facility –

· Detonation Science & Technology Facilities –

· Directed Light Fabrication Facility –

· Energetic Neutral Beam User Facility –

· Explosives Chemistry Research, Development, and Testing Facility –

· Explosives Pulse Power Facility –

· Extreme Pressure and Temperature Diamond-

· Geostationary-Orbit Trapped Radiation Environment Facility –

· High-Speed Electrons Laboratory (HSEL) –

· High-Temperature Superconductor/Electrical Characterization Laboratory –

· LANSCE - Manuel Lujan Jr., Neutron Scattering Center –

· Large-Scale Explosives Formulation and Fabrication Facility –

· Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Research User Facility –

· Library Without Walls Project –

· Los Alamos Accelerator Code Group –

· Los Alamos Elastic Lidar Facility –

· Los Alamos Integrated Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Facility (ISNF) –

· Los Alamos Molecular-Species-Specific Lidar Facility –

· Los Alamos National Environmental Research Park –

· Los Alamos Radioisotopes and Analytical Resource –

· Materials Science Lab –

· National Flow Cytometry and Sorting Research Resource –

· National High-Magnetic Field Laboratory –

· National Stable Isotope Resource –

· Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT&E) User Facility –

· Personal Protection Environmental Testing User Facility –

· Personal Protective Equipment Environmental Testing Facility –

· Plasma Processing Research Facility –

· Plastics Engineering Facility –

· Polymers and Coatings User Facility –

· Pulsed-Laser Deposition Laboratory –

· Radiochemistry User Facility –

· Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy Materials Properties and Inspection Facility –

· Separation Science and Technology Technical Deployment Center –

· Separation Science and Technology User Facility –

· Subpicosecond High-Brightness Accelerator Facility –

· Supercritical Fluids Experimental Facility –

· Thick Film Processing and Deposition Laboratory (STC) –

· Trident Laser Laboratory –

· Tritium Science and Fabrication Facility –

· User Facility Agreement –

· Virtual Laboratory Testbed (Multi-Lab with LLNL and Sandia) –

· Weapons Neutron Research Facility (Designated) –

· X-Ray Characterization Laboratory (STC) -

PM Blue Mountain Supercomputing Platform http://www.lanl.gov/asci/bluemtn/bluemtn.html

Aeronautics

Ø NASA (National Aeronautics and Spcae Administration) http://www.nasa.gov/

As the nexus of NASA's major aeronautical and space programs, NASA Headquarters is the voice of the Agency. Through sound Agency Management, integral Functional Offices, and a vigorous Enterprise Management, NASA Headquarters integrates NASA as an aggregate sum of its many parts, among which are the centers

· Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

· Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA

· Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH

· Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY

· Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

· Independent Validation & Verification Facility, Fairmont, WV

· Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

· Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

· Kennedy Space Center, FL.

· Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA

· Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL

· Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, CA

· Stennis Space Center, MS

· Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA

· White Sands Test Facility, White Sands, NM

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- STCScI (Space Telescope Science Institute at http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/) is the astronomical research center responsible for operating the Hubble Space Telescope as an international observatory; operated for NASA by AURA (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. at http://www.aura-astronomy.org/)

as well as projects like:

Apollo

Apollo 1

· Apollo 11

· Apollo 13

Asteroids

· general information

· . . . colliding with earth

Astronauts Astronomy

Black hole

Carbon Dioxide Cassini Challenger Chandra Comets

· general description

· . . . colliding with earth

Contrails

Eclipses Earth Earth at night Employment Europa"

Galileo GPS (also "Global Positioning System")

Helios Hubble (also "Hubble Space Telescope") Hyper-X

Images (also "photographs" or "pictures") International Space Station

Jobs John Glenn Johnson Space Center (also "JSC") JPL (also "Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Jupiter

Logo

MAP (also "Microwave Anistropy Probe") Mars

· the planet

· NASA's Mars Exploration Program

Mercury

· The planet

· The first NASA human spaceflight program

Mir Moon Moon Landing

· Fake moon landing, or Moon landing hoax

· MPEG (also "MPG")

·NASA Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (also "NEAR" or "NEAR Shoemaker") Neil Armstrong

·Pathfinder

· the Mars Rover

· the experimental light aircraft

·Photographs (also "pictures" or "images") Pioneer 10 Planet X Planets Pluto

·Robots Rockets

·Satellites Saturn

· the planet

· the engine that launched men toward the Moon

·Scramjets

· general description

· technical site

·SETI (also "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence") SOHO (also "Solar and Heliospheric Observatory") Solar System Solar wind Space Shuttle Stars Sun

·UFOs (also "Unidentified Flying Objects")

·Voyager Venus

·X-43

Science and technology

Ø ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). www.ornl.gov

ORNL is a multiprogram science and technology laboratory managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by UT-Battelle, LLC. Scientists and engineers at ORNL conduct basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the nation's leadership in key areas of science; increase the availability of clean, abundant energy; restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security.

ORNL also performs other work for the Department of Energy, including isotope production, information management, and technical program management, and provides research and technical assistance to other organizations. Some facts & figures:

Staff: 3800 total (1500 scientists and engineers )

Budget: $870 million (80% Department of Energy, 20% work for others)

Large Scale Research Facilities:

· Advanced Propulsion Technology Center

· Bioprocessing Research and Development Facility

· Buildings Technology Center

· Californium User Facility for Neutron Science

· Catalog of Isotope Production & Distribution

· Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)

· Center for Engineering Systems Advanced Research (CESAR)

· Center for Global Environmental Studies

· Center for the Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated Energy Technologies (CADDET)

· Center for Separations and Chemical Processing

· Center for Transportation Analysis

· Collaborative Technologies Research Center

· Computational Center for Industrial Innovation

· Databases: http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/databases.htm

· High Flux Isotope Reactor

· High-Performance Computing

· High Temperature Materials Laboratory

· High Temperature Superconductors

· Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility

· Joint Institute for the Biological Sciences

· Joint Institute for Computational Sciences

· Joint Institute for Energy & Environment

· Laboratory for Comparative and Functional Genomics

· Laboratory Technology Research Program

· Metals Processing Laboratory User Center

· Metrology R&D Laboratory

· Mouse Genetics Research Facility

· Netlib (The repository is a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases)

· Neutron Scattering Facilities

· Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (ORELA)

· Oak Ridge Center for Composites Manufacturing Technology

· Oak Ridge Centers for Manufacturing Technology

· Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator

· Oak Ridge Energy Crop County Level Database

· Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park

· Oak Ridge National Laboratory

· Oak Ridge Transportation Technology Center (ORTRAN)

· Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)

· Physical Properties Research Facility

· Power Electronics and Electric Machinery

· Radiation Safety Shielding Information Computational Center (RSICC)

· Radioactive Materials Analytical Laboratory (RMAL)

· Shared Research Equipment Program

· Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)

· Surface Modification and Characterization (SMAC) Research Center

· Toxicology Information Response Center

· Transgenic and Targeted Mutant Animal Database

· Computer Science & Mathematics Division

(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

The Computer Science and Mathematics Division is ORNL's premier source of basic and applied research in high performance computing, applied mathematics, and intelligent systems. Basic and applied research programs are focused on the thrust areas of computational sciences, intelligent systems, and information technologies.

Our mission includes working on important national priorities with advanced computing systems, working cooperatively with U.S. Industry to enable efficient, cost-competitive design, and working with universities to enhance science education and scientific awareness. Our researchers are finding new ways to solve problems beyond the reach of most computers, and putting powerful software tools into the hands of students, teachers, government researchers, and industrial scientists.

· Automotive Crashworthiness

· Center for Computational Sciences

· request form

· Eagle(IBM SP)

· Falcon(big Compaq)

· Colt(small Compaq)

· Storage

· Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research

· Cooperative Robotics Laboratory

· Optical Communications Laboratory

· Optical Computing/Quantum Communications Laboratory

· Division Computing Resources

· request form

· In-Vehicle Information Systems Development Center

· PROBE Storage Testbed

· Tennessee Oak Ridge Cluster

· VizLab

Ø NIH; (National Institutes of Health) http://www.nih.gov/

NIH today is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the U.S, with a budget thjat has grown to more than $20.3 billion in 2001. Supporting and conducting both NIH's extramural and intramural programs are about 15,600 employees.

· Office of the Director (OD)

· National Cancer Institute (NCI)

· National Eye Institute (NEI)

· National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

· National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

· National Institute on Aging (NIA)

· National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

· National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

· National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)

· National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

· National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

· National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

· National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

· National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

· National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

· National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

· National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

· National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

· National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

· National Library of Medicine (NLM)

· National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NBIB)

· Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center (CC)

· Center for Information Technology (CIT)

· National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

· National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)

· National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)

· John E. Fogarty International Center (FIC)

· Center for Scientific Review (CSR)

Ø NIST National Institute of Standards and Tgechnology) http://www.nist.gov/

NIST has an operating budget of about $720 million and employs more than 3,200 scientists, engineers, technicians, business specialists, and administrative personnel. About 1,600 guest researchers complement the staff. In addition, NIST partners with 2,000 manufacturing specialists and staff at affiliated centers around the country. Its institutions are:

· Building and Fire Research Laboratory-

· Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory-

· Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory –

· Information Technology Laboratory-

· Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory –

· Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory –

· Physics Laboratory

· Technology Services -

The index gives reason to suspect a number of LSF (at):

Advanced Chemical Science Laboratory (ACSL)

· Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

· Advanced Measurement Laboratory (AML)

· Advanced Networking Technologies

· American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Laboratory (AASHTO)

· Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB)

· Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science

· Charleston, SC, Laboratory

· Charpy Impact Machine PDF (NIST Recommended Practice Guides)

· Computer Security Resources Center

· Construction Materials Reference Laboratories (CCRL)

· Convergent Information Systems

· Focused Programs, Advanced Technology Program

· Foreign Guest Researcher Program

· Foreign Visitor Program

· JANAF Tables

· JILA

· Laser Cooling and Trapping

· MOIST Software

· Nanotechnology

· National Center for Standards and Certification Information (NCSCI)

· National Conference on Weights and Measures

· National Semiconductor Metrology Program

· National Type Evaluation Program (NTEP)

· Neutron Research

· Office of Applied Economics

· Office of the Chief Financial Officer

· Office of the Director

· Office of Information Services

· Office of International and Academic Affairs (OIAA)

· Office of Law Enforcement Standards

· Office of Manufacturing Programs

· Office of Measurement Services

· Office of Microelectronics Programs

· Optical Physics

· Optical Technology

· Optoelectronics

· Physical and Chemical Properties

· Physical Constants

· Physical Reference Data

· Polymers

NSF (National Science Foundation) http://www.nsf.gov/

The NSF is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering.

NSF - Funded Research Centers

· Test

· NSF Science and Technology Centers Center of Plant Developmental Biology (University of California Berkeley)

· Engineering Research Centers Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC)

· Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network at University of Washington

· Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs)

· Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) at State University of New York at Buffalo

· National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)

· State/Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (S/I/UCRC)

NSF Supercomputing Centers

· Cornell Theory Center (CTC)

· National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

· Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)

NF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

· National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

Federally funded R&D Centers

· Federally-Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC's):

Arizona

- National Optical Astronomy Observatories

California

- Aerospace Federally Funded Research and Development Center

- Arroyo Center

- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

- National Defense Research Institute

- Project Air Force

- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Colorado

- National Center for Atmospheric Research

- National Renewable Energy Laboratory

District of Columbia

- The Science and Technology Policy Institute

Idaho

- Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Illinois

- Argonne National Laboratory

- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Iowa

- Ames Laboratory

Maryland

- National Cancer Institute at Frederick

- START (University of Maryland-based) National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorismwww.start.umd.edu

Massachusetts

- C3I Federally Funded Research & Development Center (also in Virginia)

- Lincoln Laboratory

New Jersey

- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

New Mexico

- Los Alamos National Laboratory

- Sandia National Laboratories

New York

- Brookhaven National Laboratory

Pennsylvania

- Software Engineering Institute

Puerto Rico

- National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center

South Carolina

- Savannah River Technology Center

Tennessee

- Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Texas

- Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses

Virginia

- C3I Federally Funded Research & Development Center (also in Massachusetts)

- Center for Advanced Aviation System Development

- Center for Naval Analyses

- Institute for Defense Analyses Communications and Computing Federally Funded Research and Development Center

- Institute for Defense Analyses Systems and Analyses Federally Funded Research and Development Center

- Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Federally Funded Research and Development Center

- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Washington

- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

West Virginia

- National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Individual Laboratories and Facilities

· Air Force Research Laboratory

· Ames Laboratory

· Argonne Army High Performance Computing Research Center

· Brookhaven Environmental Research Laboratories

· Fermilab Lawrence Berkeley Los Alamos

· National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Centers

· Oak Ridge Pacific Northwest Laboratory Sandia Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

U.S. Federal Agencies and Interagency Projects

· Air Force Office of Scientific Research Army Research Laboratory (ARL)

· Census Bureau

· Commerce Department Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

· National Agricultural Library - USDA (NAL)

· National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

· National Library of Medicine (NLM)

· National Performance Review (NPR)

· Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)

· Navy OnLine Home Page Office of Naval Research (ONR)

U.S. Science Organizations

· American Association for the Advancement of Science

· Chicago Academy of Sciences

· National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council

· National Science Teachers Association

· Smithsonian Institution

· Science Organizations Around the World

International Science Organizations

· UNESCO

· UN and other International Organizations

Nuclear & Security

Ø NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration http://www.nnsa.doe.gov/)

NNSA provides support to the Administrator, and includes the functions of legislative affairs, public affairs and liaison with other Federal agencies, State, tribal and local governments and the public. It also provides support for resource management in the areas of budget formulation, guidance, and execution; personnel; and procurement management and the administration of contracts; as well as other activities as determined by the Administrator.

Budget: $ 3,499 million; Number of employees, pm.