Science and Technology Policy Issues
Facing the United States
June 18-22, 2012
The Brookings Institution
Washington, DC
Preliminary Agenda
(June 5)
Monday, June 18, 2012
7:45 – 8:30 a.m.
Falk Auditorium,
The Brookings Institution
Registration and Full Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Welcome, Overview and Introductions
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9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Peter Schoettle, Senior Staff, Brookings Executive Education,
the Brookings Institution;
Ian Dubin, Program Manager, Brookings Executive Education,
the Brookings Institution
US National Science Policy: Key Issues and Challenges Ahead
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Subra Suresh, Director, National Science Foundation (confirmed)
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
The Role of Science and Technology in US Foreign and National
Security
 Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment
and Science, Department of State (confirmed)
11:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Break
11:45 – 12:40 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
Nuclear Fuel Storage: While Politics Blocks Yucca Mountain,
The Problem Worsens: How Serious? What Options Exist?
 Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies;
Former Senior Policy Advisor to Secretary of Energy, and
former Senior Investigator, Senate Committee on Government
Affairs (confirmed)
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Monday, June 18, 2012 (continued)
12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Saul/Zilkha Room
Lunch:
Congressional Science Policy: An Inside Perspective
 Robert Walker, Chairman, Wexler and Walker Public Policy
Associates; former Congressman (R-PA), and Chairman of
the House Science Committee (confirmed)
2:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Break
2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
The US Nanotechnology Initiative: How Effective Is the US
Government in Handling Emerging Science Policy Issues? and
How Can Federal Agencies Interact More Effectively with the
National Academies of Science?
 Eric Svedberg, Senior Program Officer, National Materials and
Manufacturing Board, National Academies of Science
(confirmed)
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
Where Is the Money Going? The 2012-13 Federal R&D Budget;
And Measuring Results from Research
 Kei Koizumi, Assistant Director for Federal Research and
Development, and STAR Metrics Project Lead, Office of
Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the
President, White House (confirmed)
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Rm. 2325 Rayburn HOB
Full Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Rm. 2325 Rayburn HOB
Big Data: Launching the New Initiative to Crunch and Mine
Mountains of Data
 Suzanne Iacono, Senior Science Advisor, Computer and
Information Science and Engineering Directorate, National
Science Foundation; co-chair for the Big Data Senior
Steering Group, National Science and Technology Council
(likely)
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 – 11:25 a.m.
Rm. 2325 RHOB
Science and the Public: Communicating Successfully to
Win Support, Understanding, and Dollars
 Marc Kuchner, author, Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in
Tough Times, astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (confirmed)
11:30 – 12:00 noon
Rm. 2325 RHOB
Promoting Clean Rivers via the Endocrine Disrupters Act
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Congressman James Moran, (D-VA), Ranking Member,
Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related
Agencies, Appropriations Committee, House of
Representatives (invited)
12:00 – 12:30 p.m.
Rm. 2325 RHOB
Lunch
12:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Rm. 2325 RHOB
Serving in the House: How Well Does Congress Deal with
Science-Related Policy Issues?
 Congressman Rush Holt, (D-NJ); Member, Education and the
Workforce; and Natural Resources Committees, House of
Representatives (invited)
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Rm. 2325 RHOB
Congress and Science Policy: Panel of Congressional Staffers
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Janet Poppleton, Majority Staff Director, Science, Space and
Technology Committee, House of Representatives;(invited)
Richard Obermann, Minority Staff Director, Science, Space and
Technology Committee, House of Representatives; (confirmd)
Harlan Watson, Science, Space, and Technology Committee,
House of Representatives; (confirmed)
John Piazza, Minority Counsel, Science, Space, and Technology
Committee, House of Representatives;(confirmed)
Ann Zulkosky, Professional Staff Member (majority), Science and
Space Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation;(confirmed)
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Rebecca Hooks, (title?) Commerce, Science and Transportation
Committee, Senate (invited)
Jeff Bingham, (title?) Commerce, Science and Transportation
Committee, Senate; and (invited)
Richard Russell, Minority Staff Director, Science, Space, and
Technology Committee, House of Representatives (invited)
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 (cont.)
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Break
3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Rm. 2325 RHOB
Scientific Integrity in the United States: Withstanding Political
and Public Pressures
 Francesca Grifo, Senior Scientist, Director, Scientific Integrity
Program, Union of Concerned Scientists (confirmed)
4:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Break
4:30 – 5:00 p.m.
TBD
 Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, (R-WA); (invited)
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Brookings Institution
Full Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Fostering Creativity at the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA)
 Kaigham (Ken) J. Gabriel, Acting Director, DARPA (confirmed)
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Science Policy: From Idea to Implementation - Case Study of
Efforts to Save Chesapeake Bay and How the EPA and State
Governments Make and Implement Policy
 Richard Batiuk, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Associate
Director for Science, Environmental Protection Agency
(confirmed)
Break
11:45 – 11:55 a.m.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
The Global Cyber Arms Race: How Vulnerable Is the U.S.?
What Should Be Done?
 Shawn Henry, Former Executive Assistant Director, Criminal,
Cyber, Response and Services Branch, Federal Bureau of
Investigation; President, CrowdStrike Services (confirmed)
1:05 p.m.
Depart via Bus for the Field Trip:
Eat Lunch on Bus
A. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
OR
B. Naval Research Laboratory
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Goddard SFC, MD or
Visit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, OR
Naval Research Laboratory
 GSFC: “Science on a Sphere”; Tour Spacecraft System
Development & Integration Facility, including Hubble and
Centrifuge; Discussion with Goddard’s Chief Technologist,
Peter Hughes(confirmed)
 Naval Research Laboratory (confirmed)
4:10 p.m.
Depart via Bus and Return to the Brookings Institution
5:15 p.m.
Arrive at Brookings Institution
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
8:15 – 9:00 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Politics vs. Science: The Collapse of ‘Cap and Trade’ and
American Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
 Juliet Eilperin, Environmental Correspondent, Washington Post,
(likely)
Break
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Leading a Federal Science Agency: The DOE’s Science Office
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11:00 – 11:15 a.m.
11:30 – 12:30 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Saul/Ziklha Room
Patricia Dehmer, Deputy Director for Science Programs, Office of
Science, Department of Energy (confirmed)
Break
Dark Energy and the Future of the Universe: A Big Rip, a Big
Collapse or Just a Big Fizzle?
 Adam Riess, Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, 2011; Astronomer,
Space Telescope Science Institute; Professor of Astronomy
and Physics, Johns Hopkins University (confirmed)
Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
Humans: Who Are We? Where Did We Come From?
Discoveries from the National Geographic’s Genographic
Project
 Spencer Wells, Project Director; Explorer-in-Residence at
National Geographic; Professor, Cornell University; author of
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (confirmed)
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Break
2:45 – 4:15 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
The Future of NASA and US Space Policy: Can Private
Companies Replace Federal Agencies in Space? Panel
Session:
 TBD, Orbital Sciences Corporation, (invited) and
 Alan Ladwig, Deputy Associate Administrator for Public
Outreach, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(confirmed)
Break
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
Sparking New Energy Technologies: The Operations of the New
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) at the Energy
Department
 Arun Majumdar, Undersecretary, Department of Energy;
Inaugural Director, ARPA – E, Department of Energy
(regretted)(DOE trying to get substitute)
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Friday, June 22, 2011
8:15 – 9:00 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Brookings
Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Deciding Right from Wrong: Recent Scientific Developments
Spark New Ethical Dilemmas
 Kevin T. FitzGerald, David Lauler Chair in Catholic Health Care
Ethics, and Associate Professor, Department of Oncology,
Georgetown University Medical Center (confirmed)
9:45 – 10:00 a.m.
Break
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Falk Auditorium
Food Safety: What’s Happening at the FDA and What Needs
to Be Done
 William Hubbard, Senior Advisor, Coalition for a Stronger FDA;
former Senior Associate Commissioner for Policy, Planning
and Legislation, Food and Drug Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services (confirmed)
11:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Break
11:45 – 12:45 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
Protecting Critical US Infrastructure from Cyber Attack:
What Needs To be Done?
 James Lewis, Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public
Policy Program, Center for Strategic and International
Studies (confirmed)
12:50 – 2:30 p.m.
Saul/Zilkha Room
Lunch
The Third Industrial Revolution: Innovation in Computerized
Manufacturing – Breakthrough Technologies at GE’s Global
Research Laboratory
 Luana Lorio, Technology Leader, Manufacturing Technologies,
General Electric Global Research (possible)
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Break
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
Science Policy: From Idea to Implementation: Case Study of
The Better Buildings Challenge Program
 Maria Vargas, Brand Manager, Better Buildings Challenge,
Department of Energy; former brand manager for “Energy
Star” in the Environmental Protection Agency (confirmed)
3:45 – 4:15 p.m.
Falk Auditorium
Seminar Wrap-up, Evaluation and Awarding of Certificates
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Peter Schoettle, the Brookings Institution; and
Ian Dubin, the Brookings Institution
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