Argonne & the National Laboratory Complex prepared for: 2015 Americas Competitiveness Exchange Delegation Greg Morin Director for Strategy & Innovation Argonne National Laboratory 24 April 2015
The national labs support the DOE mission across four research platforms ENERGY All-of-the Above Energy Strategy ENVIRONMENT SECURITY SCIENCE Advancing U.S. Economic Competitiveness Rapid Response - Gulf Oil Spill, Fukushima, Site Cleanup Protecting our nation from a wide variety of threats 2
The DOE National Laboratory complex 3
Diversity in mission & core capabilities creates a foundation for the nation s innovation ecosystem Science Technology 4
Advancing Nuclear Security, Science & Energy, and Environmental Cleanup: DOE $29.9 billion FY 2016 Budget $11.60B $12.79B Other $0.69B 2% Environmental Management $5.82B Energy $5.38B 18% 19% Science $5.34B 18% Nuclear Security $12.79B 43% Nuclear Security Nuclear Security $9.31B $4.24B Energy $5.07B Science $10.72B $5.38B Energy $5.34B Science $6.52B Other $0.66B $5.86B Environmental Management $6.51B Other $0.69B $5.82B Environmental Management FY15 FY16 FY15 FY16 FY15 FY16 The $29.9 billion budget is a $2.5 billion (9%) increase from FY 2015 5
Argonne is a DOE Office of Science lab Science Labs Energy Labs Weapons Labs 6
FY 2016 Office of Science $5.34B Budget Request Dollars in Thousands Construction $591,310 11% MIEs $144,901 3% Other* $364,747 7% SBIR/STTR $143,340 3% Facility Operations $1,995,565 37% Research $2,099,931 39% *Other includes GPP/GPE amounts for BES, GPP for FES, Other (DOE/SC/Fermi/Lawrence) for NP, WDTS, SLI nonconstruction funding, S&S, and Program Direction. 7
Argonne at a glance Chartered July 1, 1946 with nuclear energy mission now multi-purpose S&T Owned by the U.S Department of Energy Operated ever since by The University of Chicago, now via UChicago Argonne, LLC $730M+ annual budget 3400+ employees including 1700+ scientists and engineers 7300+ external users of our research facilities every year 8
Argonne s core capabilities NUCLEAR & PARTICLE PHYSICS TRANSPORTATION & COMBUSTION PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION IMAGING NANOMATERIALS HARD X-RAYS CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FOR ENERGY SENSORS & DETECTORS ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY NUCLEAR ENERGY HIGH- PERFORMANCE COMPUTING BIOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT MOLECULAR ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE BIG DATA
Argonne s strategic framework Leadership in discovery science & engineering Innovation in energy and technology Security for the nation World-class facilities to enable science ArgonneNext: a 21 st Century Laboratory 10
Current strategic initiatives Hard x-ray sciences Leadership computing and computational science Energy storage Materials for energy Sustainable transportation Nuclear energy and security Biological and environmental systems Argonne NEXT: safety, infrastructure, diversity 11
Argonne s suite of world-class user facilities Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System Advanced Photon Source Center for Nanoscale Materials Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Electron Microscopy Center 12
The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory: One of the world s most complex and most productive scientific machines
Worldwide synchrotron facilities US$520 million 2015 1 Completion: 2020? 18 2019 2019? PETRA-III, Germany: new SPring-8, Japan: upgrading 2016 8 GeV 1997
The APS supports a strong community of world-class researchers >1,600 publications in 2014 >6,200 unique users in 2014 APS users come from institutions in almost every state in the nation Nobel Prizes in 2009 and 2012 15
Paradigm-changing scientific opportunities uniquely enabled by an upgraded APS Amyloid fibrils Soft Materials Earth and Environmental Sciences Planetary core (Mercury) Copper foam anode material Patches of charge order in LaCaMnO 3 Chemistry and Catalysis Condensed Matter Physics Life Sciences and Biology Advanced Materials Transition elements in zygotes Strain map in polycrystalline metal 16
DOE A world leader in high performance computing Titan at ORNL 17+ pf Sequoia at LLNL 16+ pf Mira at ANL 8+ pf Cielo at LANL/SNL 1+ pf Hopper at LBNL 1+ pf
Leader in high-performance computing Home to one of world s fastest supercomputers for open science, Argonne is a leader in computation science and a pioneer on the path to exascale. High-performance computing enables detailed simulations How fast is an exascale computer? 10 18 operations per second To match an exascale computer, all 7 billion people alive today would need to perform more than 140 million calculations a second
Argonne s battery research continuum Requires marketing and communicating an effective message focused on industry needs. 19 19
Partnerships key to solving grand challenges 5 National Laboratories 4 5 Private- Universities Sector Partners
Successful partnerships result in technology development and commercialization Industrial and Manufacturing, 117 Argonne Patent Portfolios Accelerator, 45 Alternate Energy, 63 Electronics, 45 Transportation, 13 Nuclear, 34 Material, 26 Life Sciences, 117 Battery, 153 Computing, 15 21
Strategy for technology development & commercialization Commercializing innovation through Leveraging the Chicago Innovation Ecosystem Focus on market-needs-driven technology development & commercialization Development of enduring partnerships both internal and external Aligning tech development with lab strategy Using a business development pipeline with targeted technology portfolios Illinois Innovation Council 22
Our regional partnering ecosystem Tech Transfer Kellogg Engineering Computing Engineering Materials User Facilities Harris School Booth School Polsky Center. Medical Engineering Genetics Molecular Engineering Physical & Biological Sciences Biotechnology Nanotechnology Mentorship Programs Angel & VC Funds The Garage Incubators Accelerators Chicago Innovation Ecosystem Agriculture and food Illinois Industry Pharma WBC DCEO Public Sector UCTech Computation, UrbanCCD Energy Transportation 23
Argonne s direct economic impact in Illinois $600 million in federal research funds $90 million in goods and services purchased from Illinois businesses $34 million in construction 6,500 researchers from all over the world visited Illinois to use Argonne s world-class facilities 800 researchers from 50-plus Illinois universities, companies and other organizations 4,300 K-12 student visits 600 undergraduate/ grad interns 300 grad student/post-doc researchers 24
Partnering with the State of Illinois to support economic development Theory and Computing Sciences Building IFA loan guarantee Center for Nanoscale Materials $36 million grant Argonne Guest House $19 million grant Advanced Protein Characterization Facility $34.5 million grant 25
International impact Argonne Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Interoperability Center the ability to charge conveniently, safely and securely anywhere, anytime with no extraordinary actions required by the vehicle operator Standards across the globe are being developed independently harmonization or translation is required at the grid interfaces Test procedures and tools are needed to verify compliance Harmonized Standards, Test Procedures & Tools Interoperability EV-EVSE Compatibility EVSE-Grid Communication Energy Service Providers 26 26
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