DOE: in line with changing national priorities. (Department of Energy's industrial development Strategic Plan)
Ceramic Industry, June, 1994 by Wilson, Robert Dale
The DOE has released its first comprehensive Strategic Plan, which has been called a strategy for empowering and using the department's tremendous scientific and technological assets to help U.S. industry compete in a global economy. Considering the attention Congress is beginning to pay to the DOE labs, the plan is seen by many as a strategic effort to bypass several proposed reforms, including privatizing the national labs.
The department has an annual budget of $18.5 billion, and employs 160,000 people. The DOE's 30,000 scientists and engineers engage in world-class science and technology development. The DOE laboratories, i.e., Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia, which were originally created and operated to work on the U.S. critical defense...
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