About the ASC/Russian Science & Technology Cooperative Program
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Since 1996, the United States and Russia have conducted collaborative science and technology activities. The 2002 Gordon-Ryabev agreement established some area of mutual scientific interest related to stockpile stewardship that fit within NNSA’s Defense Program campaign structure. Since then, the tri-lab community of weapons research laboratories (Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) has conducted a number of collaborations with their Russian counterparts. The Gordon/Ryabev agreement called for one million dollars per laboratory to be available each year to support these collaborations.
The principal objective of the Cooperative Program between the U.S. laboratories and Russian nuclear laboratories and institutions is to develop a technically strong program of collaborations that is beneficial to the U.S. Department of Energy under the current aegis of the S&T Cooperative Program.
A key objective is the continued integration of Russian collaborative projects into mainline projects at the U.S. laboratories so as to bring them into better alignment with intermediate and longer term DOE/NNSA and laboratory programmatic objectives. This would result in a higher level of programmatic visibility of the Russian collaborations at the laboratories. Thus, an important task in the Program, is to identify projects that are both complementary and supplementary to existing projects at the U.S. and Russian laboratories.
Another objective is to maintain and continue building strong representation of U.S. and Russian programs at international conferences. These conferences are venues for face-to-face contact and help to identify new areas for collaboration. It is also hoped they will draw new scientists into the collaborative efforts.Sandia National Laboratories’ Gordon/Ryabev Agreement Presentation (17 October 2002) [PDF]
The following links to U.S. government Web sites describe other NNSA programs involved with Russia.
