Brookhaven Lab's Information Technology Division's (ITD) mission 
		is to deliver safe, efficient operations that ensure the delivery of 
		the Lab's research mission by:
		
			- Providing a reliable and secure, high-speed network 
			infrastructure for scientific and business computing
- Developing a scientific computing infrastructure that 
			can support the computing needs that are common among the 
			scientific departments
- Providing support to scientific and administrative 
			programs to help them address their unique computing problems
- Providing a cost–effective, highly reliable, secure 
			and standardized computing infrastructure
- Promoting best practices in the areas of hardware support, 
			application development and customer service
- Providing cost-effective information services to the Brookhaven 
			Lab community including Research Library, publications, records 
			management, and technical editing services, in support of the 
			research mission and in compliance with contractual 
			requirements