Assistance program
Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER)
$201.0 Million committed in FY2019–FY2026
- Agency
- Energy, Department of, Energy, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 81.008
- What it does
- The Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) enhances the security and resilience of U.S. critical energy infrastructure from all hazards, mitigate the impacts of disruptive events and risk to the sector overall. CESER’s Risk Management Tools and Technologies (RMT) division is responsible for research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of new tools and technologies that address risks to U.S. energy infrastructure. These tools and technologies address risks from cybersecurity and physical threats, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), geomagnetic disturbances (GMD), and natural hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding. The intended outcome of CESER RMT projects is next generation tools and technologies that provide energy sector protection, monitoring, detection, response, containment, and recovery capabilities. These efforts are primarily executed through competitive solicitations.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- All types of domestic entities are eligible to apply, such as profit organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations, universities, research organizations, and state and local governments. All information regarding eligibility requirements will be included in the specific notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) announcement.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 110-140; Statute 1492, p. 121
- Public Law 109-58; Statute 594, p. 119
- Public Law 102-486; Statute 2776, p. 106
- Public Law 95-91; Statute 565, p. 91
- Public Law 114-94; Statute 1312, p. 129
- Public Law 117-58; Executive Order Tackling Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad; Statute 429, p. 135
- Program site
- https://www.energy.gov/ceser/ ↗
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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