12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Notable
Refocus the 14 non-NNSA National Labs on basic research
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“Refocus the National Labs on fundamental and advanced science. … The remaining 14 science and energy labs should focus on basic research projects; demonstration and deployment of technology should be left to the private sector.”
What has happened
- Not started
No directive, budget instruction or reorganization was found refocusing the fourteen non-NNSA National Laboratories on basic research and moving demonstration and deployment to the private sector. The laboratories continue to run applied and demonstration programs, and EO 14363 of 24 November 2025 mobilizes them for the Genesis Mission, an applied artificial-intelligence effort.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Covered by the negative search run once for all the National Laboratories asks (#936, #995, #996, #997).
The Under Secretary for Science oversees thirteen of the seventeen DOE National Laboratories on the 3 August 2026 organization chart; the split between Office of Science laboratories and the rest is unchanged.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- National Laboratories
- ID
- 936