
The Department of Energy on Thursday awarded $12 million in new university grants for the research, development and demonstration of cybersecurity technology to detect and mitigate threats to the nation’s power grid. The six university-led teams are being funded by DoE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response to advance anomaly detection, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and physics-based analytics to strengthen the security of energy systems and will include efforts to quickly detect cyber intrusions and automatically…