Refocus National Labs on defense/advanced science; reduce climate-renewables capture
Mandate argues labs have been too focused on climate change and renewable technologies and that science dominance requires recommitment against espionage and toward transformative national-security science, including rationalizing the lab complex with Congress.
Mandate
Mandate Ch. 12 (Energy) — American Science Dominance / labs: National Labs have been too focused on climate change and renewable technologies; next President must recommit to science dominance; Administration should work with Congress to rationalize the National Lab complex; DESAS leads cutting-edge fundamental advanced science.
Undo plan
1) Maintain climate/earth-system science where it informs national security and extreme-weather resilience.
2) Increase counter-intelligence protections against research theft.
3) Rationalize duplication without closing unique user facilities blindly.
4) Balance weapons, energy, and open science portfolios via NNSA/Office of Science.
5) Verify: security incident rates and landmark scientific outputs.