The U.S. Congress 2020 National Defense Authorization Act contains a Section 5726 entitled “Securing Energy Infrastructure” that directs the Department of Energy (DoE) to establish a working group responsible for evaluating elements of security program elements, and development of national strategy. The DoE formed a voluntary group of public and private sector leaders called the Securing Energy Infrastructure Task Force (SEI ETF), and subgroups, each focused on a particular objective called for in the congressional language. One subgroup was tasked with identifying new classes of security vulnerabilities that are likely to arise in industrial control systems (ICS). This group was known as the Technical Project Team for New Classes of Security Vulnerabilities for ICS (TPT-NCSV).
