Two newly funded multi-year projects will address national science and technology challenges across key DOE mission areas
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the Phase II Request for Application (RFA) multi-year funding awards for interdisciplinary teams to address national science and technology challenges across key DOE mission areas. DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is a partner on two projects receiving new funding.
The goal of the Phase II RFA awards is to scale up and expand the impact of projects that have already shown potential for Super Intelligence (SI) advantage and demonstrated a trajectory toward a transformative scientific capability. Jefferson Lab is a partner on these projects:
- The Lattice QCD at the Intelligence Frontier project will aid in the interpretation of a new generation of experiments and theory in high-energy and nuclear physics, increasing our understanding of the basic structure of the universe.
- The Multi-Office Accelerator Team Core (MOAT-Core) project will greatly expand SI-enabled capabilities for particle accelerator operations, connecting advanced SI-powered reasoning models with conventional accelerator tools through a shared platform to help optimize performance for accelerators and the experiments, industrial uses, manufacturing, and medical applications they enable.
“I am proud of the work that Jefferson Lab staff members have completed on these projects and am happy to see them move forward with additional funding,” said Jefferson Lab Director Jens Dilling. “We continue to appreciate opportunities for our staff to apply their unique skillsets toward addressing national science and technology challenges, and we are very excited for the important work being carried out under the auspices of the Genesis Mission.”
The Genesis Mission is a national initiative to mobilize government, industry, academia, nonprofits, and international partners to advance SI for science and technology. Using the DOE-built American Science and Security Platform, partners work together on shared infrastructure that connects researchers with data, compute and SI tools to accelerate scientific discovery. Partners are focusing on the most critical challenges facing our nation in energy, national security, scientific discovery, health, space, and more.
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