Sec. 211. Crosscutting research and development
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Congress finds the following: The President believes that the United States energy policy must have an all-of-the-above strategy for the 21st century that develops every source of American-made energy . The Department plays a strategic role in critical energy research and development to ensure a balanced, prosperous, and secure energy future. The Secretary shall, through the Under Secretary for Science and Energy, utilize the capabilities of the Department to address issues facing our Nation’s energy future, including identifying strategic opportunities for collaborative research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of innovative science and technologies for— advancing the state of the energy-water-land use nexus; improving energy transmission and distribution systems security and resiliency; utilizing supercritical carbon dioxide in electric power generation; subsurface engineering; exascale computing; and critical challenges identified through comprehensive energy studies, evaluations, and reviews.
To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall seek to leverage existing programs, and consolidate and coordinate activities, throughout the Department to promote collaboration and crosscutting approaches within programs. The Secretary shall— prioritize activities that promote the utilization of all affordable domestic resources; identify opportunities for public-private partnerships, innovative financing mechanisms, and grant challenges; develop a rigorous and realistic planning, evaluation, and technical assessment framework for setting objective, long-term strategic goals and evaluating progress that ensures the integrity and independence to insulate planning from political influence and the agility and flexibility to adapt to market dynamics; ensure that activities shall be undertaken in a manner that does not duplicate other activities within the Department or other Federal Government activities; and identify programs that may be more effectively left to the States, industry, nongovernmental organizations, institutions of higher education, or other stakeholders.