As an outgrowth of these recommendations a Steering Committee for a Future Very Large Hadron Collider was formed to coordinate and bring coherence into the U.S. efforts on a very large hadron collider. 

The Directors of BNL, FNAL, LBNL, Cornell, and SLAC appointed representatives to this Committee. 

The committee formed working groups on Accelerator Physics, Accelerator Technologies, and Magnet Technologies and these working groups organized workshops. 

Two well attended annual meetings were held and an annual report issued.  Throughout these efforts the U.S. site of the vlhc was assumed to be Fermilab. 

From these efforts emerged the staging scenario described in the recently completed VLHC study.   The main parameters have changed from those in our original mission statement but the dream still is alive!  These parameters and the staging strategy will be explored during the Snowmass workshop.

The steering committee for a future very large hadron collider coordinates efforts in the United States to achieve a superconducting proton-proton collider with approximately 100 TeV cm and approximately 10³⁴ cm^-2sec^-1 luminosity.

The Steering Committee for a future very large hadron collider has been established to coordinate the U.S. effort towards a future, post-LHC, large hadron collider. Its initial membership consists of representatives appointed by the Directors of BNL, FNAL, LBNL, and Cornell University's Laboratory of Nuclear Studies. 

The Steering Committee will encourage the exchange of personnel between participating institutions, promote coordination in planning and sharing of research facilities and provide a mechanism for all interested parties to participate in the evaluation of the alternative technological approaches that are presently being pursued.

The Steering Committee does not manage the work of the individual institutions. It will organize the selection of a good name and logo for the vlhc. It will issue an annual report summarizing work of each group and setting goals for the next year.  The focus is on technology and cost reduction. 

The Steering Committee appoints working groups to deal with specialized issues. Working Groups are open to all and participation is welcomed from all US and foreign institutions

The orbiting accelerator logo is from a 1954 slide by Enrico Fermi, University of Chicago Special Collection.