Talk:ARPA-E

From the House Science Committee:

In August of 2007, the President signed into law the America COMPETES Act (PL 110-69).

COMPETES codified many of the recommendations of the 2005 National Academies report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, including to establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) to sponsor “creative, out-of-the-box, transformational” energy research. ARPA-E is charged with developing technologies that: • Reduce dependency on foreign oil; • Improve the energy efficiency of all economic sectors; • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and • Maintain U.S. leadership in the development and deployment of energy technologies.

ARPA-E utilizes many of the same organizational elements that fostered the successful culture of innovation of DARPA at the Department of Defense. ARPA-E offers a significant shift for the Department of Energy (DOE), both for the research it conducts and how it conducts that research.

• ARPA-E will leverage the intellectual capital of the nation’s universities, commercial, industrial, and investor communities, and the national labs to pursue high-risk, high-reward research that neither these entities nor DOE would pursue on their own.

• ARPA-E will have the flexibility to sponsor R&D that spans multiple stages, from basic research to commercialization, and in areas that are otherwise too cross-cutting or multi-disciplinary to fit into the current DOE system. • ARPA-E will be an independent entity within DOE with a flat, non-bureaucratic management structure. The ARPA-E Director will report directly to the Secretary of Energy, and no other program within DOE will report to ARPA-E.

• The ARPA-E Director will have flexible hiring authority to recruit the best and brightest program managers from outside of government at competitive salaries and for limited tenures of 3-5 years to ensure that fresh ideas and talent circulate through the program.

• ARPA-E Program Managers are given extraordinary autonomy and resources to pursue high-risk technological pathways, quickly assemble research teams to “crash” on projects, and start and stop projects based on performance and relevance. ARPA-E projects will not be subject to the traditional peer-review system.

As recommended by the National Academies, ARPA-E funding should be seen in the context of expanding overall energy R&D investment to a level that begins to meet the scale and complexity of the challenge. First year funding should approach $300 million, and quickly ramp-up to $1 billion in subsequent years.

This looked like an uncited cut-n-paste from government propaganda. We need to fully cite verifiable sources and paraphrase into encyclopedic language. W Nowicki (talk) 20:39, 14 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 5 external links on ARPA-E. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120328005010/http://www.arpa-e.energy.gov/About/History.aspx to http://arpa-e.energy.gov/About/History.aspx
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120309140134/http://arpa-e.energy.gov:80/media/news/tabid/83/vw/1/itemid/21/vice-president-biden-announces-recovery-act-funding-for-37-transformational-energy-research-projects.aspx to http://arpa-e.energy.gov/media/news/tabid/83/vw/1/itemid/21/vice-president-biden-announces-recovery-act-funding-for-37-transformational-energy-research-projects.aspx
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120309142001/http://arpa-e.energy.gov:80/media/news/tabid/83/vw/1/itemid/19/doe-announces-%24100-million-available-for-innovative-research-projects.aspx to http://arpa-e.energy.gov/media/news/tabid/83/vw/1/itemid/19/doe-announces-%24100-million-available-for-innovative-research-projects.aspx
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120309141646/http://arpa-e.energy.gov:80/media/news/tabid/83/vw/1/itemid/22/department-of-energy-awards-%2492-million-for-groundbreaking-energy-research-projects.aspx to http://arpa-e.energy.gov/media/news/tabid/83/vw/1/itemid/22/department-of-energy-awards-%2492-million-for-groundbreaking-energy-research-projects.aspx
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090218042740/http://blogs.sciencemag.org:80/scienceinsider/2009/02/400-million-for.html to http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/02/400-million-for.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 09:01, 1 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Vanity Fair article by Michael Lewis: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis Shtove (talk) 14:12, 24 August 2017 (UTC)Reply