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Energy’s cyber unit eyes new strategic plan

Alex Fitzsimmons speaks at the McCrary Institute's Cyber Summit on March 17, 2026. (McCrary Institute)

By Justin Doubleday

The Energy Department’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response plans to lay out its first strategic plan, following on the heels of the Trump administration’s new national cybersecurity strategy.

Alex Fitzsimmons, director of the CESER office, said the new strategic plan will be out soon.

“CESER has been around for six years, [since the] first Trump administration,” Fitzsimmons said during a Tuesday event in Washington hosted by Auburn University’s McCrary Institute. “Has never had a strategic plan clearly written down, explaining what the mission is, what the goals, objectives, key performance indicators are that we’re all striving to achieve. Definitely helps that we have a new national cyber strategy.”

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