SEPTEMBER 22-24, 2026 | NATIONAL HARBOR, MD
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Important Dates

Due: June 26, 2026

Acceptance Notifications: July 31, 2026

Final Papers Due: September 4, 2026


Submissions will be reviewed with a preference towards:

checkmark    New interdisciplinary approaches or perspectives
Clear alignment with focus and topical areas
Papers will be submitted to IEEE for publication in Xplore
4 pages minimum, 10 pages maximum
Work in progress papers will not be accepted this year


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America's energy infrastructure has become increasingly digital, with elements such as grid-connected sensors, inverter-based resources, and AI-powered control systems. This shift brings greater vulnerability. This track discusses secure design strategies, including Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE), to ensure that modernizing America's energy infrastructure enhances—rather than endangers—national security and military readiness.

Adversaries have already infiltrated America's critical systems. This track addresses cyber-physical systems defense, consequence-driven strategies, and operational resilience in energy, water, communications, and transportation lifeline infrastructure sectors, ensuring vital infrastructure supports national security operations and maintains community lifelines in the face of hazards and threats.

Energy dominance starts at the grid edge. This session explores how communities, municipalities, and defense installations can deploy microgrids, nuclear energy technology, and advanced grid solutions to deliver affordable, reliable, secure, and resilient power. Alongside planning and finance, the discussion highlights the protection and control strategies that make these systems operationally robust, including adaptive protection and coordination, islanding, and recovery from disturbances.

AI and datacenters are accelerating load growth and reshaping grid planning and enhancements. This session examines how to integrate advanced storage, inverter-based resources, and nuclear energy systems while preserving reliability, survivability, security, and resilience through modern protection and control. Topics include fault behavior in inverter-rich systems, real-time simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and resilient designs for critical loads that support both economic growth and national security.

Anticipating failure is the foundation of resilience. This track advances data-driven analysis, modeling, and test & evaluation to understand dependencies and impacts across critical infrastructure systems. Emphasizing AI-enabled analytics, cyber-physical risk analysis, and decision-support tools to inform risk-based investments and operational efforts, strengthening national, state, and local preparedness, it bridges insight to action.
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