Development of Technologies for Assurance of the U.S. Energy Infrastructure

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Development of Technologies for Assurance of the U.S. Energy Infrastructure: THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR ASSURANCE OF THE U.S. ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE NOTE: This is a descriptive overview only of the Funding Opportunity Announcement. Please scroll to the bottom of this page under the section entitled Full Announcement and Other Files to see the entire Announcement - it is attached as a Word file. You must read the entire Announcement for additional information, evaluation criteria and application preparation instructions. Additionally, please note that this Funding Opportunity contains three program Areas of Interest. Applications cannot be submitted directly under this Master Announcement but must be submitted under the Area of Interest which best fits the majority of the effort to be performed. The U.S. Department of Energy apos;s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is seeking applications to develop and demonstrate technology that can help ensure the reliability and security of the Nation apos;s energy infrastructure. The Department of Energy created the DOE Office of Energy Assurance (OEA) to carry out the Department apos;s responsibility for leading the federal effort to ensure a secure and reliable flow of energy to America apos;s homes, businesses, industries, and critical infrastructures. On behalf of OEA, the NETL is working with state and local governments, industry, academia, and other national laboratories to implement OEA apos;s Technology Development and Application program function. This program function includes the following: - Providing advanced analysis capability for understanding energy infrastructure operation, vulnerabilities, interdependencies, system complexities and cascading effects. - Determining causes and consequences of infrastructure outages, including interdependencies and cascading effects. - Identifying critical nodes for the energy infrastructure. - Developing optimized protection, detection, mitigation, and response strategies for all physical, cyber, and natural threats. - Providing monitoring and display capability to assess real-time status of the energy infrastructure for use in training and recovery operations. Applicants selected to receive an award will be expected to demonstrate the technology at an end-use site. Critical infrastructures are systems, such as the United States apos; energy system, whose extensive incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense and economic security of our Nation. Subsequent to the attacks of September 11, 2001, concern about the security and reliability of the Nation apos;s critical infrastructures increased sharply and a comprehensive and coordinated approach to ensure their security became necessary. Our energy system and energy supply is fundamental to our economy and one of the Nation apos;s critical infrastructures. The energy infrastructure underpins all other infrastructures: telecommunications, transportation, banking, manufacturing, and essential services such as food, water, and health. A successful, widespread, malicious attack on our energy infrastructure, or even a significant part of our energy infrastructure, could have a devastating impact on our well-being and security as a Nation. The energy infrastructure is comprised of the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity, and the production, storage, refining processing, transmission, and distribution of oil and natural gas production. The objective of this announcement is to financially assist selected participants to develop technologies in the following Areas of Interest and to demonstrate the technology at an end user facility. A commitment letter from an end-user facility is a submission requirement. Applications proposing to develop and demonstrate innovative ways to implement existing technologies are also encouraged. Technologies should be applicable to multiple sites in the oil and gas and/or electric sector(s). They should achieve a quantifiable return on investment by enhancing the security, reliability, availability, and/or production of the system of interest. The enhancement should be above that which is commercially available. Applications are sought in the following three areas: Area of Interest 1 - Physical Security (Area of Interest Number DE-PS26-04NT42071-01) https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/1be0f2271893ba198525644b006bc0be/87c9a5 db1655440b85256e590050dc02?OpenDocument Area of Interest 2 - Cyber Security (Area of Interest Number DE-PS26-04NT42071-02) https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/1be0f2271893ba198525644b006bc0be/732166 34346a73e985256e59005171a9?OpenDocument Area of Interest 3 - Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (Area of Interest Number DE-PS26-04NT42071-03) https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/1be0f2271893ba198525644b006bc0be/f2a4eb e47544812785256e590051ec6b?OpenDocument PLEASE NOTE: ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE SUBMIT QUESTION FEATURE IN IIPS.