Cooperative Agreement DECR0000066
- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) awarded a $3,500,043 Cooperative Agreement to New York University (NYU) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CFDA 81.008) federal grant program. The INSPIRE PROJECT will develop a real-time distributed anomaly detection framework (INSPIRE-ADS) and evaluate its efficacy under distributed adversarial scenarios involving large numbers of compromised grid-edge...
- This $1,803,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) aims to extend and demonstrate the use of digital twins across different areas of electric power generation. The project will focus on enhancing the security of electric power systems through design, cyber-informed engineering, laboratory-scale deployment, and testing in a relevant environment. The Electric Power Research Institute Inc....
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CFDA 81.008) Federal Grant Program is intended to advance tools and technologies designed to reduce risks to energy delivery infrastructure from all hazards, including cybersecurity, physical security, and climate effects. The $1,470,000.00 award to New York University, which has a...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) provides $5,583,698.00 to the Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (EPRI) to develop an integrated, automated system to identify third-party and potential zero-day vulnerabilities, verify their exploitability dynamically, and create a feedback loop for rapid enhancement of static analysis capabilities. The objectives of this 3-year...
- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) awarded a $695,156 Cooperative Agreement to The Texas A&M University System to implement an acoustic detection and location system into a server that will receive sensor-based event reports from shot detectors and turn them and events from other sensors into actionable events, enhancing substation physical security. This project is funded under CESER's Cybersecurity, Energy Security &...
- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) awarded a $3,486,055 Cooperative Agreement to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to research, develop, and demonstrate a natural hazard and large language model enhanced electric grid planning tool. The objective is to improve the resilience of the U.S. electric grid to natural hazards, such as those due to climate change and extreme weather. The 3-year project, running...
- The Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CFDA 81.008) program, aims to demonstrate cybersecurity technologies in a smart grid network and validate the operation of an in-network analysis platform. The $3,452,571.00 project, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, is being conducted by the Research Foundation...
- This $1,458,067 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CFDA 81.008) grant program funds the New Mexico State University (NMSU) Energy Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Center. The goal of this 1-year project is to increase the capacity of NMSU's Integrated Digitally-Connected Enterprise Accelerator Laboratory (IDEAL) to prove and...
- Under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.008), the American Public Power Association (APPA) was awarded a $4,000,000 cooperative agreement on May 1, 2024. This funding will enable APPA, under the direction of the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), to engage its membership of electric public power utilities to improve their cybersecurity posture. The cooperative...
- This $3,534,856 Cooperative Agreement award was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.008). The goal of this award is to establish a regional cybersecurity center to perform applied research and development, as well as curriculum and workforce development, in partnership with regional universities, energy utilities,...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) awarded a $5,599,971 Cooperative Agreement to Southern California Edison Company (SCE) on October 1, 2025. The funding is provided through CESER's Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CFDA 81.008) program, which focuses on enhancing the security and resilience of critical U.S. energy infrastructure. Under this award, SCE will demonstrate the ability to "operate through compromise" by enabling distributed energy devices to achieve reliable, self-organizing monitoring and control during a cyberattack through a collection of computational techniques called Collaborative Autonomy (CA). The project aims to develop innovative cybersecurity solutions to protect the energy delivery systems from various threats, including cyber attacks, physical security risks, and operational disruptions. The award has a final completion date of September 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $3.8m | 9/30/25 |