3.3: Research Integration
Integrate basic and applied research to accelerate innovation and to create transformational solutions for energy and other
U.S. needs.
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The Department of Energy manages a mission-driven portfolio of research that spans from the most basic research exploring
the origins of the cosmos, to applied research designed to solve emerging challenges in energy, environment, and national
security. The scale and complexity of this research portfolio provides an enormous competitive advantage to the Nation as
multidisciplinary teams of scientists, using the most advanced scientific instruments in existence today, are able to respond
quickly to national priorities and changes in opportunities at the frontiers of science. As just one example, the Department
mobilized enormous resources during the past few years to reclaim world leadership in high-performance computing at a time
when other countries had all but taken over this strategically important capability that is vital to long-term U.S. scientific
leadership and U.S. competitiveness. This agility in responding to challenges and opportunities is increasingly characterized
by DOE'S ability to achieve meaningful integration between the basic and applied research communities. The Department's ability
to expand on this tradition will only strengthen its competitiveness and our ability to rapidly convert the fruits of science
into the revolutionary technologies that will change forever how we provide for life’s most basic needs—whether it be to light
the night, heat a home, transport food, cure an illness, or to understand the beginning of time itself.
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