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National Laboratory

A federally funded research and development center managed by the Department of Energy, performing scientific research and technological development in various fields like energy, defense, and environment.

Secretary of Energy

The head of the U.S. Department of Energy, responsible for the nation's energy and nuclear security policies.

Deferred Maintenance

Maintenance that was not performed when it should have been or when it was scheduled, leading to a backlog of necessary repairs.

Critical Infrastructure

Systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.

Authorization of Appropriations

A legislative act that establishes a government program or agency and specifies the maximum amount of money that can be spent on it. Actual funding still requires a separate appropriation act.

Office of Science

The largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, managing many of the Department of Energy's national laboratories.