  For the field of high energy physics to continue to have a bright future,
priority within the field must be given to investments in the development of
both evolutionary and transformational detector development that is coordinated
across the national laboratories and with the university community,
international partners and other disciplines. While the fundamental science
questions addressed by high energy physics have never been more compelling,
there is acute awareness of the challenging budgetary and technical constraints
when scaling current technologies. Furthermore, many technologies are reaching
their sensitivity limit and new approaches need to be developed to overcome the
currently irreducible technological challenges. This situation is unfolding
against a backdrop of declining funding for instrumentation, both at the
national laboratories and in particular at the universities. This trend has to
be reversed for the country to continue to play a leadership role in particle
physics, especially in this most promising era of imminent new discoveries that
could finally break the hugely successful, but limited, Standard Model of
fundamental particle interactions. In this challenging environment it is
essential that the community invest anew in instrumentation and optimize the
use of the available resources to develop new innovative, cost-effective
instrumentation, as this is our best hope to successfully accomplish the
mission of high energy physics. This report summarizes the current status of
instrumentation for high energy physics, the challenges and needs of future
experiments and indicates high priority research areas.
