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Energy

The nuclear weapons complex, the national laboratories, energy data, and energy research.

ARPA-E
The Energy Department agency, modeled on DARPA, that funds high-risk, high-reward energy technology research
DOE Office of Science
The Energy Department office that is the largest federal funder of basic research in the physical sciences and runs ten national laboratories
Energy Information Administration
The Energy Department's independent statistical agency for data and forecasts on oil, gas, electricity, coal, and renewables
Office of Environmental Management
The Energy Department office cleaning up radioactive and hazardous waste left by decades of nuclear weapons production
Power Marketing Administrations
The four Energy Department agencies that sell electricity from federal dams to public utilities and cooperatives across 34 states
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The government's emergency stockpile of crude oil, stored in salt caverns on the Gulf Coast
The Department of Energy
Mostly a nuclear weapons agency: the warheads, the national laboratories, the cleanup, and the energy research
The National Laboratories
Seventeen government-owned, contractor-run research centers born from the Manhattan Project
The National Nuclear Security Administration
The agency that designs, builds, and certifies the nation's nuclear weapons and powers its nuclear navy