Last week Sen. Alexander (R,TN) introduced S 2470,
the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020.
Like the House bill (HR
2960), S 2470 provides specific funding for Cybersecurity, Energy Security,
and Emergency Response (CESER, pg 90) and the Appropriations Committee Report
includes specific DOE cybersecurity funding.
CESER and Cybersecurity
The Senate bill would fund CESER at $179 million, $29
million higher than the House bill. Of that spending the Committee targets $96
million for Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems. From those monies the
Committee requests DOD spend $10 million on the DarkNet project and $7 million
for Consequence driven Cyber-informed Engineering.
Finally, the Report recommends continued funding for the two
following programs at $3 million for each program:
• DE–OE–00000807, “Improving the Cyber and Physical
Security Posture of the Electric Sector”; and
• DE–OE–0000811, “Improving the Cyber Resiliency and
Security Posture of Public Power”
Moving Forward
Again, as with S 2474 this bill will not see consideration
as a stand-alone bill. The language will be substituted for Division E of HR 2740
as it starts the consideration process today.
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