• Delivering Excellence

    Built on more than four decades of partnership, SURATech unites two organizations with a shared commitment to operational excellence and the Lab's legacy of breakthrough scientific discovery.

  • Delivering Excellence

    SURATech brings the people, capabilities, experience, and approaches to realize Jefferson Lab’s potential as a cutting-edge, multi-program DOE Laboratory.

  • Delivering Excellence

    We will make the positive changes required for best-in-class performance moving forward while continuing what is working well at the Laboratory.

Our Vision

Enable a thriving DOE Office of Science laboratory that delivers world-leading science and user facilities through operational excellence and breakthroughs in nuclear science, data and computational science, and energy and applied sciences.

Science

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The SURATech Team will drive Jefferson Lab scientific discovery into new and exciting domains. We will expand Lab partnerships to foster innovation and build capabilities and leverage assets to maximize benefits.

Operational Excellence

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SURATech brings leading capabilities to manage laboratory operations that safely and cost-effectively support scientific discovery—building on SURA’s continuous improvement initiatives implemented at the Lab.

SURATech Members

SURATech, the Offeror, is led by LLC partners Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Virginia Tech complements SURA’s scientific leadership at the Lab with its global reputation for science and engineering research. SURA and Virginia Tech provide a reliable pipeline to thousands of science, technology, engineering, and other STEM graduates each year—increasingly the in-demand, diverse talent critical to the Lab’s research programs and projects, including the construction and operation of the upcoming High Performance Data Facility.

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Leadership Team

SURATech’s key personnel will deliver operational excellence enabling world-class science by establishing a clear vision, implementing a process of continuous improvement, and benchmarking best practices from other national laboratories, DOE sites, and industry.

  • Jens Dilling

    Jens Dilling

    Laboratory Director

    The Lab has a bright future ahead and my team is dedicated to achieving excellence in scientific research and operations under the guiding principles of safety in all of our work and effective, disciplined stewardship of these important national resources.
  • Eric Brown

    Eric Brown

    Deputy Laboratory Director, Science & Technology

    Focusing on delivery and optimization of our scientific facilities, I will continue to build collaboration in the national/international arena for research and development to optimize the CEBAF and upcoming HPDF center, while looking forward to emerging opportunities in scientific research.
  • Johnathon Huff

    Johnathon Huff

    Deputy Laboratory Director, Operations

    I will continue to lead in transforming our safety culture for science and operations and drive operational excellence enabled by state-of-the-art processes and tools, establishing the Lab as a world-class, multi-program laboratory achieving breakthrough scientific research.