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Office of Science               U.S. Department of Energy               
Office of Basic Energy Sciences

The Basic Energy Sciences (BES) program supports fundamental research in focused areas of the natural sciences in order to expand the scientific foundations for new and improved energy technologies and for understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts of energy use.   BES also discovers knowledge and develops tools to strengthen national security.   The BES program plans, constructs, and operates major scientific user facilities to serve researchers from universities, national laboratories, and industrial laboratories.

The BES program is one of the Nation's largest sponsors of the natural sciences by funding experiments at more than 160 research institutions through the following three Divisions (organization chart):
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Patricia M. Dehmer
Associate Director of Science 
     for Basic Energy Sciences
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