National Laboratories

DOE Office of Science Moving to More Autonomy for Labs, Official Says

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Kenneth Fletcher and Todd Jacobson
NS&D Monitor
9/19/2014
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has given more autonomy to national laboratories from headquarters on management and budget decisions, a DOE official this week told a panel tasked…

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