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BEER-SHEVA, Israel, May 6, 2021 - A winning consortium led by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) the Israeli leader, and Arizona State University (ASU) the U.S. leader, along with several other tech partners, including Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GT), will receive up to $6 million under a U.S.-Israel Energy Center research funding grant for energy infrastructure cybersecurity.
The consortium s research project is entitled: Comprehensive Cybersecurity Technology for Critical Power Infrastructure AI Based Centralized Defense and Edge Resilience. Increasingly, both Israel and the U.S. face costly cyberattacks that can cause severe damage to critical energy infrastructure. This consortium will develop, integrate, and test technologies, and demonstrate high value cyberattack mitigation technologies on the energy infrastructure using data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Israel s Ministry of Energy and the Israel Innovation Authority announced the winner to receive up to $6 million under the U.S.-Israel Energy Center competitive funding opportunity in the area of cyber security for energy infrastructure. The total value of the investment with cost-shared arrangements could reach up to $12M for a period of three years.
This award follows the selection on March 2020 of three consortia, comprised of U.S. and Israeli organizations for the topics of fossil energy, energy storage, and energy-water nexus sectors. The three selected programs were launched in August-September 2020.