Snowmass '21 Community Engagement Frontier 6: Public Policy and Government Engagement: Non-Congressional Government Engagement

TL;DR

This paper reviews how the High Energy Physics community engages with non-Congressional government entities and discusses the impact of public policy on community engagement and advocacy efforts.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of non-Congressional government engagement strategies and assesses community-driven advocacy within the HEP field.

Findings

Analysis of current engagement practices

Identification of barriers to government collaboration

Recommendations for enhancing advocacy efforts

Abstract

This document has been prepared as a Snowmass contributed paper by the Public Policy & Government Engagement topical group (CEF06) within the Community Engagement Frontier. The charge of CEF06 is to review all aspects of how the High Energy Physics (HEP) community engages with government at all levels and how public policy impacts members of the community and the community at large, and to assess and raise awareness within the community of direct community-driven engagement of the US federal government (i.e. advocacy). The focus of this paper is HEP community engagement of government entities other than the U.S. federal legislature (i.e. Congress).