§6336 Report on Use of Funds for Certain Research and Development Purposes

Summary

By February 1 each year, the Secretary of Energy must send the congressional defense committees a report on money spent in the prior fiscal year for the Department of Energy’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program. The report must let Congress see how those activities support the Department’s national security work. The report must show, for plant-directed research and development, a money breakdown by each nuclear weapons production facility, the share of each facility’s R&D that is plant-directed, and how each facility plans to make more plant-directed R&D funds available and used. "Plant-directed research and development" means R&D chosen by the director of a nuclear weapons production facility. The report must be prepared by the federal officials who oversee the program’s funds and must list the criteria they used to decide if the activities support the Department’s national security mission.