Workforce development and training efforts at facilities of the LaserNetUS network

LaserNetUS, a network of 10 high-power laser facilities across America, and operating effectively as a user facility, has been established by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2018. The vision of LaserNetUS is to advance the frontiers of ultra‐intense laser‐science as well as their multi- and interdisciplinary applications in various sectors including high energy density, materials and biomedical science. The mission of LaserNetUS is to re‐establish US scientific competitiveness in high-energy-density and high-field optical science by advancing the frontiers of laser‐science research, providing students and scientists with broad access to unique facilities and enabling technologies, and by fostering collaboration among researchers and networks from around the world. Now in its 4^th experimental cycle, LaserNetUS has welcomed more than 400 single users, with a quarter of them being students. This talk will review efforts undertaken by the network to promote collaborations and workforce development in the field of plasma, high energy density, and laser science.