Department of Energy (DOE) - DOE’s overarching mission is to advance the national, economic and energy security of the United States ; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex.

Biological and Environmental Research (BER) - BER supports leading edge research facilities used by public and private sector scientists across range of disciplines: structural biology, DNA sequencing, functional genomics, climate science, the global carbon cycle, and environmental molecular science. BER coordinates research across all of these programs with other Federal agencies.