This bill updates a section of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to reauthorize and expand a Department of Energy (DOE) program that supports cybersecurity and resilience for the energy sector. It adds specific goals: strengthen collective defense and resilience, improve collaboration between government and energy companies to analyze threats, share classified and unclassified information, perform advanced analytics and experiments, and increase the sector's understanding of threat actors and vulnerabilities. The bill allows the Secretary of Energy to run these activities through one or more "Energy Threat Analysis Center" physical locations. It says any assistance or information provided is at the sole discretion of the Secretary and does not create a legal right to receive similar help. The program will not be treated as an advisory committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Information shared with or by the government under the program is treated as voluntarily provided and is exempt from public disclosure laws, including specified exemptions under federal and state law. The bill extends the program's authorization period from the earlier 2022–2026 window to 2027–2031.
No publicly available information on exact costs or funding amounts is included in the bill text. The bill extends the program authorization period to cover 2027 through 2031 instead of 2022 through 2026.
Proponents describe the bill as a way to make the energy sector and the nation safer by: improving government–industry collaboration to analyze and mitigate threats; enabling classified and unclassified information exchange; building technical systems for advanced analytics, alerts, and experiments; and increasing understanding of adversary tactics and vulnerabilities that threaten energy systems.
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