Over half of the projects funded this time come from universities and national laboratories.
The report, drawn up by its national laboratories said that meeting this target presumed some important assumptions.
The neighboring Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign are also involved in the project.
Sandia National Laboratories is working on a bacteria-killing agent to clean contaminated offices.
There are currently 15, 000 unlicensed patents held by the National Laboratories, said Chu.
The money is going mostly to universities and national laboratories, but some is heading to private companies as well.
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed radiation-detection pods that can monitor airborne radiation using drones, without endangering human flight crews.
Second, we will establish a partnership on aviation screening technology between DHS and the Department of Energy and its national laboratories.
Representatives to this forum would include top technical experts from the Department of Defense, the national laboratories and the intelligence community.
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are exploring the idea of using concentrated solar energy to turn CO2 into fuel.
It would direct unwarranted spending on interesting but long-term and lower priority technologies amounting to a make-work program for certain national laboratories.
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Prompted in part by concerns raised by the SEC and FBI, the Labor Department hired Sandia National Laboratories to audit its data-release system.
With help from Sandia National Laboratories, Goodyear developed its "Triple Tred" feature to address what Goodyear discovered was drivers' biggest fear: changing weather conditions.
In 1982, Sandia National Laboratories simulated the impacts of a catastrophic accident at nuclear power plants on the surrounding environment for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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The national laboratories develop and certify an engineering design for warhead modification through a combination of nonnuclear experiments, flight tests, physics and engineering analyses, and computer simulations.
The field has long been led by U.S. technology companies and national laboratories, which operate systems that have consistently topped lists of the fastest machines in the world.
The National Laboratories have looked into the emissions equation and everywhere except NY the Volt save very significant oil and in most of the country significantly reduces emissions.
Users include researchers from national laboratories, other universities and industry.
The Department of Energy's national laboratories were charged with trying to understand bomb physics in such exquisite detail that weapon performance could be modeled accurately without blowing anything up.
Studies funded by national laboratories have estimated that a powerful solar disturbance could knock out electrical service to over a hundred million people, causing trillions of dollars in damage.
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In 2004, Cray anticipates a large share of its growth to come from sales of its new Red Storm supercomputer system, developed over the last 18 months with Sandia National Laboratories.
He was known for his unflagging support of the state's national laboratories and military installations, and he became a power broker for his work on the federal budget and energy policy.
Albuquerque, a hot spot for the solar manufacturing industry and home to the Sandia National Laboratories, managed by Lockheed Martin, could see annual economic growth of nearly 4% during the same period.
Sequoia is dedicated to NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program for stewardship of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, a joint effort from LLNL, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.
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"In particular, these simulations will enable us to understand the complexities associated with strong coupling between fuel chemistry and turbulence at low preignition temperatures, " noted team member Jacqueline Chen of Sandia National Laboratories.
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Last month, in conjunction with Shawn-Yu Lin of the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, the group showed that photonic crystals can guide light on a far smaller scale than was previously possible.
To speed rescue efforts, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a robot that would eliminate some of the unknowns of mine rescue operations and arm first responders with the most valuable tool: information.
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"It's taken years of hard work and close collaboration among universities, national laboratories and private companies to get to this point, " said Pier Oddone, director of the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
" They then declare that, "This commission, which submitted its report to Congress last year, calls for significant investments in a repaired and modernized nuclear weapons infrastructure and added resources for the three national laboratories.
One of the largest employers was Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy unit established in 1949 to develop nuclear weapons and now also working on solutions to nonmilitary problems in energy, computing and geologic sciences.
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