§7139. Office of Science; establishment; appointment of Director; compensation; duties — Inbound Citations

Citations to 42 U.S.C. § 7139 as a whole

• 42 U.S.C. § 16358(b)(2)(G)(ii)

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  (ii) an affirmation that any hubs, institutes, or research centers that are established or renewed within the Office of Science are consistent with the mission of the Office of Science described in subsection (c) of section 7139 of this title.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18641(a)

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  (a) As part of the activities authorized under section 7139 of this title, the Director shall carry out a research and development program in basic energy sciences, including materials sciences and engineering, chemical sciences, physical biosciences, geosciences, and other disciplines, to understand, model, and control matter and energy at the electronic, atomic, and molecular levels in order to provide the foundations for new energy technologies, address scientific grand challenges, and support the energy, environment, and national security missions of the Department.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18641(d)(3)(E)

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  (E) such other facilities as the Director considers appropriate, consistent with section 7139 of this title.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18642(a)

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  (a) As part of the activities authorized under section 7139 of this title, the Director shall carry out, in coordination with academia and relevant public and private sector entities, a research, development, and demonstration program—

  (1) to steward applied mathematics, computational science, and computer science research relevant to the missions of the Department and the competitiveness of the United States;

  (2) to develop modeling, simulation, and other computational tools relevant to other scientific disciplines and to the development of new energy technologies and other technologies;

  (3) to advance computing and networking capabilities for data-driven discovery; and

  (4) to develop advanced scientific computing hardware and software tools for science and engineering.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18643(b)

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  (b) As part of the activities authorized under section 7139 of this title, the Director shall carry out a research program in elementary particle physics and advanced technology research and development to improve the understanding of the fundamental properties of the universe, including constituents of matter and energy and the nature of space and time.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18644(a)

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  (a) As part of the duties of the Director authorized under section 7139 of this title, and coordinated with the activities authorized under sections 18641 and 18642 of this title, the Director shall carry out a program of research and development in the areas of biological systems science and climate and environmental science, including subsurface science, relevant to the development of new energy technologies and to support the energy, environmental, and national security missions of the Department.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18644(h)(3)(D)

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  (D) such other facilities as the Director considers appropriate, consistent with section 7139 of this title.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18644(h)(7)(A)

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  (A) The Director shall support a program of collaboration between user facilities to encourage and enable researchers to more readily integrate the tools, expertise, resources, and capabilities of multiple Office of Science user facilities (as described in subsection (d) of section 7139 of this title) to further research and advance emerging technologies.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18645(a)

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  (a) As part of the activities authorized under section 7139 of this title and section 16312 of this title, the Director shall carry out a fusion energy sciences research and enabling technology development program to effectively address the scientific and engineering challenges to building a cost competitive fusion power plant and to support the development of a competitive fusion power industry in the United States. As part of this program, the Director shall carry out research activities to expand the fundamental understandings of plasma and matter at very high temperatures and densities for fusion applications and for other engineering and plasma science applications.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18646(a)

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  (a) As part of the activities authorized under section 7139 of this title, the Director shall carry out a research program, and support relevant facilities, to discover and understand various forms of nuclear matter.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18648(a)

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  (a) As part of the activities authorized under section 7139 of this title, the Director shall carry out a research program—

  (1) to advance accelerator science and technology relevant to the Department, other Federal agencies, and United States industry;

  (2) to foster partnerships to develop, demonstrate, and enable the commercial application of accelerator technologies;

  (3) to support the development of a skilled, diverse, and inclusive accelerator workforce; and

  (4) to provide access to accelerator design and engineering resources.