JLAB2025 is an initiative to transition Jefferson Lab over a 5-year time horizon from a single program lab to a national laboratory serving a multi-program mission delivering broader impact on the regional, national and international level.
It is time for Jefferson Lab to embark on a new phase of life as a national laboratory -- a new phase in which we expand our view and ambition toward a broader role within the Department of Energy’s science mission. While we maintain a focus on fundamental nuclear science, we have an opportunity and a duty to seek even greater impact in scientific discovery, technology development, regional and national priorities. With that in mind, it is time to plan for the Jefferson Lab of the Future.
JLAB 2025 incorporates a strategic vision for the future and articulates what is required to position Jefferson Lab for success. This document describes our vision, mission, values, goals and major initiatives that form our view of Jefferson Lab in 2025. It is a framework upon which more detailed plans, principally the Lab Agenda, will be built.
Jefferson Lab Mission:
To drive discovery of the physical world and its fundamental constituents by
- Operating and improving the world’s pre-eminent scientific facility for exploring the structure of visible matter
- Developing and applying accelerator, detector and computing technologies
- Integrating experiment, theory and computation for scientific discovery
Jefferson Lab Vision:
To inspire and enable a brighter future through scientific exploration and discovery of the constituents and laws that govern the physical world
Our values and principles reflect the staff, the community that we serve, and our mission within the DOE Office of Science. They will guide how we make decisions, prioritize activities and develop and lead our workforce:
- We are here for the science: science and technology excellence at the leading edge of discovery science, in support of the DOE’s scientific mission
- We support our user community: we enable our scientific community to successfully achieve their research goals
- All Lab staff are valued, as it takes our entire team to deliver on our mission
- We offer a safe and welcoming environment where all can achieve their potential: we value diversity and inclusion in our staff and user community and strive to reflect the population at large
- We communicate openly and transparently our ambitions, goals, plans and decisions
- We prioritize technical and scientific quality before schedule concerns
In order to advance our vision and mission, Jefferson Lab will focus on four main pillars in our science and technology agenda:
- Nuclear Physics at CEBAF
- Electron-Ion Collider
- Computational Science and Technology
- Accelerator Science and Technology
In 2025, Jefferson Lab will be:
- Delivering world leading results in Nuclear Physics from CEBAF
- An enthusiastic partner in the Electron Ion Collider
- Further developing concepts to enhance CEBAF’s capabilities
- Constructing HPDF
- Completing our commitments to the LCLS-II High Energy Upgrade Project
- Exploring new opportunities to tackle the next generation challenges in NP
To accomplish this, we are undertaking multi-year initiatives and projects
- Moller: (CD-1 approval, $50M)
- Electron-Ion Collider: (CD-1 approval, Jefferson lab scope approximately $500M).
- High Performance Data Facility: ($300-$500M)
- CEBAF Center Renovation and Expansion (CRE) Project: (CD-1 approved, $87M)
- Thomas Jefferson Infrastructure Improvement (TJII) Project: (CD-0 approved, $98M)
- SoLID
- Building out scientific capability
We have an ambitious agenda. To accomplish this, we’ll need to re-orient our approach and build out our capabilities.
- Align our organization to support our ambitious agenda: our organization will need to transition to one that supports a multi-program agenda with a significant DOE project portfolio
- Develop leadership to support Jefferson Lab’s growth as a new multi-program lab, and ensure excellent mission delivery
- Build out our scientific capability to deliver on our ambitious scientific agenda
- Develop and modernize processes to enable Jefferson Lab’s growth and efficient operation
- Strengthen our capabilities to support Jefferson Lab’s significant DOE project portfolio
- Recruit and retain talent as we grow in numbers to meet this ambitious agenda
- Develop a multi-year planning framework for budgets, resources and S&T plans
- Develop technical capabilities and tools to support scientific diversification and mission growth
- Continue our efforts toward operational excellence, developing the characteristics of a high reliability organization
To realize our vision we will also enhance our partnerships:
- Ensuring close alignment between Jefferson Lab’s science and technology agenda, the Department of Energy’s goals, the vision of the user communities that we serve, and regional and national priorities
- Growing joint appointments with universities beyond nuclear physics
- Expanding our partnerships with other federal agencies
- Growing our role within the region for STEM education, particularly with under-resourced communities
