; (2) using expertise from the private sector and institutions of higher education, and the National Laboratories to develop computational software and capabilities that prospective users may accelerate emerging infectious diseases research and development; (3) increasing the utility of the research infrastructure of the Department, including scientific computing user facilities and light source user facilities, by coordinating with the Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Basic Energy Sciences programs within the Office of Science; (4) leveraging experience from existing modeling and simulation research and work sponsored by the Department and promoting collaboration and data sharing between National Laboratories, research entities, and user facilities of the Department by providing the necessary access and secure data transfer capabilities