The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), on behalf of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) Risk Management Tools and Technologies (RMT) program, is issuing this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). Awards made under this FOA will be funded, in whole or in part, with funds appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act1, more commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).
The BIL is a once-in-a-generation investment in modernizing and upgrading American infrastructure to enhance United States competitiveness, drive the creation of good-paying union jobs, tackle the climate crisis, and ensure stronger access to economic, environmental, and other benefits for disadvantaged communities2. BIL appropriates more than $62 billion to the Department of Energy (DOE)3 to invest in American manufacturing and workers; expand access to energy efficiency and clean energy; deliver reliable, clean and affordable power to more Americans; and demonstrate and deploy the technologies of tomorrow through clean energy demonstrations.
DOE’s BIL investments will support efforts to build a clean and equitable energy economy that achieves a zero-carbon electricity system by 2035, and to put the United States on a path to achieve net-zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 20504 to benefit all Americans.
BIL will invest appropriations of $250 million over a 5-year period from FY 2022 through 2026 to develop advanced cybersecurity applications and technologies for the energy sector through several research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities aligned with the 40125(b) provision.
The activities to be funded under this FOA support a subset of the BIL sections 40125(b) to Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) of applications and technologies for advanced cybersecurity in the energy sector to maximize the benefits of the clean energy transition as the nation works to curb the climatecrisis,empowerworkers,andadvanceenvironmentaljustice. ThisBIL section is focused on:
Identifying and mitigating cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Advancing the security of field devices and third-party control systems
Leveraging electric grid architecture to assess risks to the energy sector
Performing pilot demonstrations of new technologies
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