August 2009
Presenter: Jeff Smith, Deputy for Operations, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Track 8-3
Topics Covered:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory evolved from the Manhattan Project
- ORNL is DOE’s largest science and energy laboratory
- Our scope of activities today has no precedent in ORNL’s history
- Two DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers
- World’s leading neutron science capability
- World’s fastest open science computing capability
- One of three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers
- Roughly $220M of modernization activities
- Advancing technology transfer through creation of S&T Park
- $270M of cleanup activities
- High concentration of work in a 6 block area
- The level of activity and complexity is at an all-time high
- Team approach provides a forum to identify and address interface issues
- ISM guiding principle: Competence commensurate with responsibilities