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

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