§16358 Strategic research portfolio analysis and coordination plan

Summary

The Secretary must regularly review all of the Department’s science and technology work. The review must look at where science is moving and where the Department can help, national needs tied to the Department’s missions, and how world energy issues are changing. As part of that review, the Secretary must make a plan to improve coordination of research, development, demonstration, and putting technologies into use across the Department. The plan must explain technical questions that affect more than one program, how applied programs are working together, ways to improve exchanges between the Office of Science and applied programs, how basic curiosity-driven research and applied research will be connected and used, reviews of programs with poor performance or cost overruns of 10 percent or more over one or more years, which activities might be better handled by states, industry, NGOs, or colleges, and detailed proposals for innovation hubs, institutes, and research centers that advance the Department’s mission and focus on research, development, and demonstration. Every four years the Secretary must send the review results and the plan to Congress.