Introduction
Public Law 101-510 established the Strategic Environmental Research
Program in Fiscal Year 1990. The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and
the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment
(NSCEE) signed a three-year cooperative agreement in September 1992 to
provide supercomputing support to the SERDP.
"The Purposes of the (SERDP) program are as follows:
- To address environmental matters of concern to the Department of
Defense and the Department of Energy through support for basic and
applied research and development of technologies that can enhance the
capabilities of the departments to meet their environmental
obligations.
- To identify research, technologies, and other information
developed by the Department of Energy for national defense purposes
that would be useful to governmental and private organizations
involved in the development of erergy technologies and of technologies
to address environmental restoration, waste minimization, hazardous
waste substitution, and other environmental concerns, and to share
such research, technologies, and other information with such
governmental and private organizations.
- To furnish other governmental organizations and private
organizations with data, enhanced data collection capabilities, and
enhanced analytical capabilities for use by such organizations in the
conduct of environmental research, including research concerning
global environmental change.
- To identify technologies developed by the private sector that are
useful for Department of Defense and Department of Energy defense
activities concerning environmental restoration, hazardous and solid waste
minimization and prevention, hazardous material substitution, and provide
for the use of such technologies in the conduct of such activities."
