Sec. 8. Interagency coordination and Strategic Plan for electricity sector cybersecurity research
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The Energy Sector Government Coordinating Council shall— review the most recent version of the Roadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems Cybersecurity and identify crosscutting energy grid cybersecurity research needs and opportunities for collaboration among Federal agencies and between Federal agencies and other relevant stakeholders; identify interdisciplinary research, technology, and tools that can be applied to industrial control system cybersecurity challenges in the electricity sector; identify technology transfer opportunities to accelerate the development and commercial application of novel industrial control system cybersecurity technologies, systems, and processes; and develop a coordinated Interagency Strategic Plan to advance cybersecurity capabilities for industrial control systems used in the electricity sector that builds on the Roadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems in Cybersecurity.
The Interagency Strategic Plan developed under subsection (a)(4) shall be submitted to Congress within 12 months after the date of enactment of this Act. The Interagency Strategic Plan shall include— an analysis of how existing cybersecurity research efforts conducted by member agencies are coordinated and can complement and advance the goals of the Roadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems Cybersecurity; recommendations for prioritized research efforts that could contribute to advancing the cybersecurity of electricity sector industrial control systems; a description of how existing and proposed public and private sector research efforts address the topics described in paragraph (3); and a description of needed support for workforce training in this area.
In developing the Interagency Strategic Plan, the Energy Sector Government Coordinating Council shall consider— opportunities for human factors research to improve the design and effectiveness of cybersecurity devices, technologies, tools, processes, and training programs; contributions of other disciplines to the development of innovative cybersecurity protocols, devices, components, technologies, and tools; opportunities for Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR)and other technology transfer programs to facilitate private sector development of industrial control system cybersecurity protocols, devices, components, technologies, and tools; broader applications of the work done by relevant Federal agencies to advance the cybersecurity of industrial control systems used by other sectors; and activities called for in the Federal cybersecurity research and development strategic plan required by section 201(a)(1) of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 ( 15 U.S.C. 7431(a)(1) ). For the purposes of carrying out this section, the Energy Sector Government Coordinating Council shall include representatives from Federal agencies with expertise in industrial control systems cybersecurity, information technology cybersecurity, cyber physical systems, engineering, human factors research, human-machine interfaces, high performance computing, big data and data analytics, or other disciplines considered appropriate by the Council Chair. The Chair shall consider including at least one employee designated by the head of each of the following agencies: In the Department of Energy— the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability; the Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research program; the Office of Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer programs; the Office of Technology Transitions; and other offices considered appropriate by the Secretary. The National Science Foundation. The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate. The National Institute of Standards and Technology. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Human Research Program. The Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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