Orders, Initiatives, and Policies

The links below provide a framework of orders, initiatives, and policies that form the foundation of EDX and guide how EDX supports conformance with these requirements for our community.

Federal Acts

FOIA/Privacy Act – The Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Division/Office is responsible for administering policies, programs and procedures to ensure DOE compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act. This page provides aid to finding answers to your questions about programs of the Department of Energy and to obtain information that is publicly available.

Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA) of 2014 (May 9, 2014) – The purposes of this Act are to:

1. expand the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.2. establish Government-wide data standards for financial data and provide consistent, reliable, and searchable Government-wide spending data.
2. simplify reporting for entities receiving Federal funds.
3. improve the quality of data- submitted to USASpending.gov.
4. apply approaches developed by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to spending across the Federal Government.

Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (October 5, 2018) – The Geospatial Data Act codifies the committees, processes and tools used to develop, drive, and manage the National Spatial Data Infrastructure and recognizes responsibilities beyond the Federal government for its development. Resources, updates and information about the Geospatial Data Act of 2018 are posted to this page as the act is implemented.

Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (January 14, 2019) – The act, as outlined here, serves to amend titles 4 and 44, United States Code, to require Federal evaluation activities, improve Federal data management, and for other purposes.

OMB guidance on data preservation to drive AI/ML research, in accordance with the Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (EO 13859) (February 11, 2019) – This Executive Order outlines Artificial Intelligence promises to drive growth of the United State economy, enhance our economic and national security, and improve our quality of life.

No FEAR Act – The Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation (No FEAR) Act of 2002 increases accountability of Federal Departments and agencies for acts of discrimination or reprisal against employees resulting from whistleblower complaints and complaints before the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This is the Department of Energy’s reporting page for the No FEAR Act.

Constructed by over 30 DOE offices, sites, and labs, the DOE GenAI Reference Guide Version 2 reflects the latest guidance, including the October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence and the March 2024 Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence.

Initiatives and Principles

Federal Register 2011, Request for Information: Public Access to Digital Data Resulting From Federally Funded Scientific Research (November 4, 2011) – This page contains the published document for the Request for Information offering the opportunity for interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally funded scientific research.

FAIR – The “FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship,” outlined here, were published in Scientific Data 2016. This set of principles provide guidelines to improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse (FAIR) of digital assets.

OSTP Public Access Memo 2022 – This memorandum provides policy guidance to federal agencies with research and development expenditures on updating their public access policies.

White House 2013, Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research (February 22, 2013) – This memorandum outlines the Administration’s effort to ensure that the direct results of federally funded scientific research are made available to and useful for the public, industry, and the scientific community.

U.S. DOE Public Access Plan (June 2023) – The Department of Energy Public Access Plan (June 2023) describes how DOE-funded research and digital data will become more open and available to the public and how DOE will use persistent identifiers to help ensure scientific and research integrity. Building on the previous DOE Public Access Plan (July 2014).

NITRD – The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program is the Nation’s primary source of federally funded research and development (R&D) in advanced information technologies (IT) in computing, networking, and software. NITRD is among the oldest and largest of formal Federal programs that coordinate the activities of multiple agencies to tackle multidisciplinary, multitechnology, and multisector R&D needs.

NAIRR Task Force – The National AI Research Resource Task Force (“Task Force”) is a multi-stakeholder team charged with investigating the feasibility of a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR), and proposing a roadmap detailing how to establish and sustain the NAIRR. The NAIRR is envisioned as a shared computing and data infrastructure that provides AI researchers with access to compute resources and high quality data, along with appropriate educational tools and user support.

Zero Trust Data Security (Oct 2024) – This document was developed by the Zero Trust (ZT) Data Security Working Group in furtherance of its directive under the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-22-09, Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles. The Working Group is a joint committee comprised of members from the Federal Chief Data Officer (CDO) Council and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Council, as well as other Federal stakeholders. EDX has been built and developed using the principals outlined in this document, as Zero Trust.

NETL

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