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FY 1999 Budget Summary for DOE Materials Activities ......... ........................... .... 7 Distribution of Funds by Office ..................................................... 9 PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY ...................................... 10 Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs ....................................... 12 Office of Building Systems .............................................................. 13 OFFICE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES .............. ...................................... 15 Office of Industrial Strategies ........................ .... .......................... 19 Aluminum Vision Team ....................... .................................. 19 Forest Products Vision Team .......................................................... 25 Steel Vision Team ................................................. ................ 25 Glass Vision Team ............................................................ 25 Metal Casting Vision Team ................... ............................... 2........26 Mining Vision Team ..................................... ................... ........ 29 Office of Crosscut Technologies .......................... ............................... 30 Advanced Industrial Materials (AIM) Program ............ .................... ; :... 30 Financial Assistance Program ......................................................... 34 Inventions and Innovations ............ ......... ;.... ................... ... ... 34 National Industrial Competitiveness Through Energy, Environment and Economic (NICE3) ........ 38 OFFICE OF TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES ......................................... 41 Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies ......... ........................... 47 Transportation Materials Technology .............. ......... .................. ..... .... 47 Propulsion Materials ........................................... ................. 47 Lightweight Vehicle Materials ......... ............................. ............ 49 Electric Drive Vehicle Technologies Program ......... .............. ....... ........ 53 Advanced Battery Materials ....................................................... 53 Fuel Cell Materials ................................ ................. ........... 59 Office of Heavy Vehicle Technologies ................................... ...... ......... 60 Transportation Materials Technology ....................................... 60 Heavy Vehicle Propulsion System Materials ................. 8......................60 High Strength Weight Reduction Materials .................................. ...... 66 i. Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) Page OFFICE OF POWER TECHNOLOGIES ................................................... 68 Office of Solar Energy Technologies ........................................................ 69 Office of Geothermal Technologies .............................. ..... .............. 70 Office of Energy Management ............................................... 73 Advanced Utility Concepts Division ...................................................... 73 High Temperature Superconductivity for Electric Systems ................................. 73 O FFICE O F SCIENCE .................................................................... 78 Office of Basic Energy Sciences ........................................... ............ .. 87 Division of Materials Sciences ................................... 87 Division of Chemical Sciences ..................................... ................... 89 Division of Engineering and Geosciences ............. ............................. 89 Engineering Sciences Research .....................................-......... ..... 90 Geosciences Research ................... ....................................... 95 Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research ............................................ 101 Division of Technology Research ..................................................... 101 Laboratory Technology Research Program ........................................... 101 Small Business Innovation Research Program ........................................ 115 Small Business Technology Transfer Research Program ................................... 121 Office of Fusion Energy Sciences ...................................................... 122 OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ................................................ 125 OFFICE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY .................................. 140 Office'of Space and Defense Power Systems .......... ..................................... 141 Space and National Security Programs ................................................. 141 Office of Naval Reactors ............................................................... 142 OFFICE OF CIVILIAN RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT ................................... 144 OFFICE OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS ............................... ............. ... 146 The Weapons Research, Development and Test Program ...................................... 148 Sandia National Laboratories ................................................. 148 Los Alamos National Laboratory ...................................................... 161 Lawrence Lvermore National Laboratory ....................... ..... ............... 162 ii Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) Pane OFFICE OF FOSSIL ENERGY ................... .............................................. 166 Office of Advanced Research ............................................................... 168 Fossil Energy AR&TD Materials Program ........... ................................ 168 Advanced Metallurgical Processes Program ............................................... 180 DIRECTORY ...................................................................... ............. 183 KEYW ORD INDEX .............................................................................. 209 LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Membership List ........................................................ ....... 3 Table 2 Distribution of Funds by Office ..................................... ...................... 9 III Introduction INTRODUCTION The DOE Energy Materials Coordinating Committee (EMaCC) serves primarily to enhance coordination among the Departments materials programs and to further effective use of materials expertise within the Department. These functions are accomplished through the exchange of budgetary and planning information among program managers and through technical meetings/workshops on selected topics involving both DOE and major contractors. In addition, EMaCC assists in obtaining materials-related inputs for both intra- and interagency compilations. Six topical subcommittees have been established to focus on materials areas of particular importance to the Department; the subcommittees and their respective chairpersons are: Electrochemical Technologies - Richard Kelly, SC-13, (301) 903-6051 Metals - Sara Dillich, EE-22, (202) 586-7925 Radioactive Waste Containers - Matesh (Mat) Varma, SC-13, (301) 903-3209 Semiconductors - Jerry Smith, SC-13, (301) 903-4269 Structural Ceramics - Charles Sorrell, EE-232, (202) 586-1514 Superconductivity - James Daley, EE-142, (202) 586-1165 Membership in the EMaCC is open to any Department organizational unit; participants are appointed by Division or Office Directors. The current active membership is listed on pages 3-5. Three meetings were scheduled for 1999-2000. The dates and minutes from the meetings are as follows: Thursday. October 28. 1999. 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.. Room G-426/GTN The guest speaker for the first meeting of EMaCC in FY 2000 was Dr. Joseph Carpenter, Manager of the Lightweight Vehicle Materials Program in the Office of Advanced Automotive Transportation Technologies. Dr. Carpenter first provided a brief summary of the organizational structure of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and then focused on the materials research program that is funded by the following four offices: Office of Power . Technologies, Office of Industrial Technologies, Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies, and Office of Heavy Vehicle Technologies. He provided a detailed description of the materials development program in the Office of Transportation Technologies. The following upcoming events and meetings were discussed: Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) meeting: November 3-4, 1999; Metals and Ceramic Team review of M & C subprogram at the Argonne National Laboratory on November 16-17, 1999: Council on Materials Sciences meeting in Room E-401/GTN, December 13- 14, 1999. Dr. Iran Thomas discussed the possibility of involving EMaCC in supporting or sponsoring a workshop to foster collaboration in computational materials science between different program offices within the department. He suggested using the resources of a newly created organization called "Computational Materials Science Network (CMSN).' This suggestion was well received by the members. Thursday, January 13, 2000,
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