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Oak Ridge National Laboratory:Capabilities in Support of the First Responder
Presented toDHS S&T Southeast Summit
Margaret Saunders
Director, Homeland Security Programs
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
April 7, 2009
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ORNL in 1943The Clinton Pile was the world’s first continuously operated nuclear reactor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory evolved from the Manhattan Project
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World’s most powerful open scientific computing facility
Nation’s largest concentrationof open source materials research
Today, ORNL is DOE’s largest scienceand energy laboratory
$1.36B budget
4,400 employees
3,900 researchguests annually
$350 million investedin modernization
Nation’s most diverse energy portfolio
Operating the world’s most intense pulsed neutron source
Managing the billion-dollar U.S. ITER project
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ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC
The University of Tennessee Battelle
Limited LiabilityCompany
A 50-50 partnership
A 65-year relationship with DOEand its predecessors
Develops and deploystechnology worldwide
Manages or co-manages 6 DOEnational laboratories: ORNL (with UT), Brookhaven (with SUNY-Stony Brook), Idaho, LLNL (with UC and Bechtel), NREL (with MRI), Pacific Northwest
An ORNL partner since 1946
State-funded Science Alliance startedin 1982, to build programs with ORNL
Shared research in many areas
Joint appointments
Joint institutes in advanced materials, biological sciences, computational sciences, neutron sciences, nuclear physics
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We apply our strengths in scienceand technology to six major missions
Neutron sciences
Advanced materials
Ultrascale computing
Systems biology
Advanced energy systems
National and homeland security
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Enhancing nationaland homeland security
Detecting, preventing, and reversing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Deploying integrated systems for incident awareness, detection, and response
Providing technology for detecting explosives at the part-per-trillion level
Delivering enhanced protection and new capabilities to first responders and warfighters
Developing improved forensic methodologies for law enforcement agencies
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ORNL Has Partnered with DHS Since Inception –
FY 2005 new BA $29 million
FY 2006 New BA $31 million
FY 2007 New BA $79 million
FY 2008 New BA $63 million
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Chemical Industry Analysis and Training Support
Center for Infrastructure Security Analysis– Data gathering and storage
– Data analysis
– Field tools
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Highway Transportation System Support
Southeast Transportation
Corridor Project– Transportation analysis
– GIS capability
– Interoperable communication
– Radiation detection
Regional Reachback Program– Subject matter expertise
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Support of Air, Rail, and Port Security
Air Cargo Screening– Assist in streamlining 100% screening
requirement
– Software models tested at airports
Rail Cargo Monitoring– Rad detection strategies
RailReady– Modeling of rail system through key cities
Project Sea Hawk– Charleston Harbor
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Assistance to Communities
Regional Technology Integration Project– Memphis
– Team consisted of blend of scientists and first responders
Southeast Regional Research Initiative
Community and Regional Research Institute
Safe Against Fire and Ember
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Sensors and detectors
Block II Chemical-Biological mass Spectrometer Detector
Microcantilever sensors for detection of explosives and chemicals
RAMiTS for detection of chemical agents and other hazardous chemicals
Biochip for detection of bacteria, viruses, and toxins
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Direct Support of First Responder
SensorPedia– Real time actionable information
SNAPS– Portable chemical/biological sensing
SNIFFER– Chem sensors onboard
first responder
vehicles