U.S. Department of Energy Strategic Plan 2014-2018

The U.S. Department of Energy Strategic Plan 2014-2018 is a national sectoral policy of the United States of America. Its main objective is to enhance U.S. security and economic growth through transformative science, technology innovation, and market solutions to meet our energy, nuclear security, and environmental challenges.
More specifically, it provides to advance foundational science, innovate energy technologies, and inform data driven policies that enhance U.S. economic growth and job creation, energy security, and environmental quality, with emphasis on implementation of the President’s Climate Action Plan to mitigate the risks of and enhance resilience against climate change; advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries; improve energy productivity by increasing efficiency; advance options for diverse energy resources and conversion devices for power; leverage increased private sector financing for deployment of “all of the above” energy technologies; accelerate development and deployment of new transportation system technologies to diversify fuel sources, increase efficiency and reduce emissions; support environmentally responsible development, delivery and use of domestic petroleum and natural gas; contribute to international efforts to address global climate change; support a more economically competitive, environmentally responsible, secure and resilient U.S. energy infrastructure; enhance desirable characteristics and diminish vulnerabilities of the U.S. energy infrastructure to meet goals of economic competitiveness, national security, and environmental responsibility; deliver the scientific discoveries and major scientific tools that transform our understanding of nature and strengthen the connection between advances in fundamental science and technology innovation; support and conduct basic research to deliver scientific breakthroughs and extend our knowledge of the natural world by capitalizing on the capabilities available at the national laboratories, and through partnerships with universities and industry; strengthen national security by maintaining and modernizing the nuclear stockpile and nuclear security infrastructure, reducing global nuclear threats, providing for nuclear propulsion, improving physical and cybersecurity, and strengthening key science, technology, and engineering capabilities; maintain the safety, security and effectiveness of the nation’s nuclear deterrent without nuclear testing; maintain and modernize the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and dismantle excess nuclear weapons to meet the national security requirements, as assigned by the President, through the Nuclear Posture Review; reduce global nuclear security threats; continue to make progress toward securing the most vulnerable nuclear materials worldwide; increase the focus on efficient and effective management across the DOE enterprise and improve performance in the areas of environmental cleanup, construction project management, and cybersecurity; continue cleanup of radioactive and chemical waste resulting from the Manhattan Project and Cold War activities; and manage assets in a sustainable manner that supports the DOE mission.