Report of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board
Working Group on Foreign Visits and Assignments (June 8, 1999)

APPENDIX A

The Working Group held three public meetings and one fact-finding mission to three laboratories. The first meeting held on April 29, 1999, provided a general overview of the Department's Foreign Visits and Assignments program, including a briefing by Under Secretary Ernest Moniz on the history of the program. The second meeting on May 4, 1999, included briefings by the Office of Counterintelligence on new security measures at the laboratories, briefings by representatives from six of the Department's laboratory user groups on the contributions that foreign visitors and assignees make to scientific research, and a briefing by Department of Defense officials on how they handle foreign visitors.

On May 10-11, the Working Group met with high level officials from three of Department of Energy Laboratories: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. These three laboratories were chosen because they represented examples of the three types of laboratories within the complex: a single-purpose or program-dedicated laboratory, a multiprogram laboratory, and a weapons laboratory.

The Working Group was also informed by data and information which all the laboratories submitted on the number of foreign visitors and assignees at each laboratory, and examples of significant contributions that foreign visitors and assignees have made to scientific research at the laboratories. Several of the Working Group members also spoke individually with senior Departmental and laboratory officials on particular areas of interest.

During the last public meeting on May 19, the full Secretary of Energy Advisory Board reviewed and approved the general findings and recommendations of the Working Group.

June 8,1999