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Brookhaven National Laboratory Plan, 2009 – 2018
Brookhaven National Laboratory has a history of outstanding scientific achievement that spans more than six decades. One key to our continued success is the development of a strategy for the future that defines our mission and vision, our core scientific competencies, and how those competencies connect with the major activities and initiatives we plan to undertake. In other words, our vision defines what we want to be, our mission defines what we intend to do, and our strategy defines how we plan to do it. This strategy, captured in the Laboratory Plan, 2009 – 2018, also details crucial infrastructure investments and opportunities for potential growth outside of those core competencies. The following is a summary of the Laboratory plan that takes a high-level look at our strategy, competencies, and initiatives moving forward. The list of facilities, projects, and research directions summarized in the Lab Plan is not all-inclusive; it is meant to be a broad outline of our priorities for future research – areas where additional funding and effort will be expended to reach key goals. Mission and VisionAs we move through the next decade, the Lab’s vision is to be the “provider of choice” for world-class science and facilities, in support of the DOE Office of Science and its mission to enable breakthroughs that ensure a successful future for our nation. To us, this means excellence in all aspects of our work – from science, to safety, to project management, and more. From the Laboratory perspective, we see our mission focusing on two broad areas of research. The first is advancing photon sciences and energy-related research and applying them to 21st-Century problems of critical importance to the nation. The second is advancing fundamental research in nuclear and particle physics to gain a deeper understanding of matter, energy, space, and time. How do we do this? By positioning the Lab’s user facilities – the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - in continued leadership roles, and focusing on four major activities built on our existing core competencies, detailed below. What are our core competencies? Over several decades, Brookhaven has developed core competencies in specific areas of science and associated applications through the conception, design, construction, and operation of advanced facilities like the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), RHIC, NSLS, and CFN. These competencies include accelerators, instrumentation, and detectors; synchrotron science; imaging and radiotracers; computation; and complex/nanomaterials. The Laboratory defines its mission -- what we intend to do -- in terms of these core competencies, which represent areas of science we are truly excited about. The Lab will focus on four Major Activities built on Business Lines and Core Competencies: 
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