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Last Mile Cybersecurity

Federal funding bills rarely require cybersecurity for the infrastructure they finance, even as adversaries target U.S. water systems, power grids, and government networks. "Last Mile Cybersecurity" outlines concrete policy fixes to close that gap.

critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, energy, grants, national security, OMB, public funding, resilience, risk-mitigation, water

June 22, 2026

June 17, 2026 8:00 am

Critical Effect 2026

Presented by ICS Village, in partnership with IST’s UnDisruptable27 project and Akin, the two-day Critical Effect conference is coming back to Washington, DC on June 17 and 18, and doors open at 8:00AM. With 2027 getting closer, we are prioritizing ideas that lead to real, actionable impact.

critical infrastructure, energy, healthcare, national security, public safety, resilience, Volt Typhoon, water

June 16, 2026

Russia Didn’t Start the Iran War. It Still Benefits from It.

Russia has emerged as one of the quiet winners of the 2026 war with Iran, turning the conflict into a modest but timely strategic opportunity, writes IST Senior Associate for Nuclear Policy Brandon Cortino.

energy, Iran, missile, missile defense, natural gas, Russia, strategic competition, Ukraine

April 24, 2026

Episode 49: Bridging the IT/OT Divide in Oil and Gas

Bryson Bort is joined by Dd Budiharto, Microsoft’s Customer Security Officer for the Oil, Gas, and Energy sectors, as she shares her experience bridging the IT/OT divide in the energy sector.

CISO, cybersecurity, energy, gas, IT, oil, OT

January 20, 2026

Q&A: The Missing Middle: Solving America’s Deep-Tech Financing Gap

In this month's edition of The TechnologIST, Lillian Ilsley-Greene sits down with Fatima Faisal Khan to discuss a new report on how to close America's deep tech financing gap in strategic competition with China.

biotech, China, deep tech, energy, quantum, venture capital

October 31, 2025

Announcing the Energy FIRST Initiative at IST, led by Dr. Steven Burns

IST is announcing the launch of Energy FIRST, an initiative to fortify the reliability, affordability, and security of the energy systems that power modern life and national defense, led by IST Vice President for Energy and National Security Dr. Steven Burns.

critical infrastructure, cyber-physical, energy, grid, national security, power, resilience, security

October 6, 2025

Unlocking U.S. Technological Competitiveness: Proposing Solutions to Public-Private Misalignments

This concept paper, the third and last working paper in the series, lays out how a third round of working group meetings further explored those initial solutions, building out specific ways to operationalize them, identifying specific questions that need to be addressed to achieve these goals, and suggesting potential mechanisms for achieving them

biotech, China, energy, industrial strategy, quantum

June 28, 2024

Unlocking U.S. Technological Competitiveness: Evaluating Initial Solutions to Public-Private Misalignments

In February, Strategic Balancing Initiative working groups identified key misalignments between the public & private sectors in biotech, energy & quantum. Now, SBI draws from working group insights to outline potential solutions that can bridge gaps between emerging tech and the policy apparatus.

biotech, China, energy, quantum, technological competitiveness

March 29, 2024

Unlocking U.S. Technological Competitiveness: Public-Private Misalignments in Biotechnology, Energy, and Quantum Sectors

This initial Strategic Balancing Initiative report summarizes key takeaways from Working Group discussions with stakeholders in the biotechnology, quantum, and energy industries, identifying the unique challenges that they face to improving U.S. competitiveness in each respective sector. The report then engages in a ‘deep dive’ on a key concept from each industry that, if actioned, would improve innovation and could ultimately drive U.S. competitiveness.

biotech, China, energy, public-private misalignments, quantum, techno-industrial competition

February 20, 2024

Innovation and Adaptive Control in America’s Electric Infrastructure: Parallels to NC3

Providing unique insights into the performance of highly complex command and control systems from a radically different perspective, Mason Willrich describes how each of the major components of electricity infrastructure is interconnected and interactive with the others. How can this be illustrative for thinking about the challenges - and solutions - for nuclear command and control?

October 3, 2019