The U.S. LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) coordinates research and development in the United States related to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
[1] Among other things, the program has contributed important instrumentation for initial LHC operation[2][3][4][5] and is leading the way for the development of superconducting magnets based on Niobium-tin, which are proposed for future LHC upgrades.
[7] The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory joined the program shortly thereafter.
[8] LARP is funded through the US Department of Energy.
The total funding in Fiscal Year 2010 was $12.39M, distributed among the four labs involved.