TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER Annual Report Copyright Assertion Highlights Copyright is a legal right that grants the creators of original work, such as software, exclusive rights for its use and distribution. INL employees assign such rights to the company as a condition of employment. In accordance with BEA’s contract with DOE, all rights are assigned to DOE unless BEA specifically requests authority to assert copyright. BEA requests the permission to assert copyright on software it intends to license via open source and traditional agreements. During FY 2018, INL received permission to assert copyright on five software programs. Since 2005, INL has been authorized by DOE to assert copyright protection on more than 95 pieces of software. Gas Emulation Demo The Gas Emulation Demo (GasED) includes a real world industrial control system network that provides realistic simulations of how a gas system would react to various disturbances. Its programmable logic controller includes structured text developed to represent a gas distribution network system in simple physics. This involves variations in physical properties, such as pressure. The demo has onboard lighting representing major equipment components, which interfaces to remote HMI visualization similar to what would be seen in a normal control room, but is portable for demonstration purposes. Craig G. Rieger, Michael R. Miller, Scott D. Cook Transmission Route Engineering Analysis and Design INL’s Transmission Route Engineering Analysis and Design (TREAD) is a tool to be used in the design and routing of new transmission lines, even routing offshore wind generation to existing substations and associated critical infrastructure. In addition to alternating current, it can determine the best connection point for direct current applications. It is capable of interacting with data provided from different weather models, such as NOAA’s High Resolution Rapid Refresh model, in order to gather weather data about the locations that are being routed to. This weather data can then be used in conjunction with INL’s General Line Ampacity State Solver for Dynamic Line Rating informed transmission design. Jacob P. Lehmer Structured Threat Intelligence Graph Shared threat information is essential for the protection of critical infrastructure from cyber adversaries, but that information is too complex and cumbersome, limiting its application. Without a tool set to analyze, relate and share findings, critical infrastructure owners and operators struggle. The INL-developed tool Structured Threat Intelligence Graph (STIG) provides easy-to-use visual programming, facilitating the process of creating, editing, analyzing and querying Structured Threat Intelligence eXpression (STIX) with graph theoretic queries. STIG’s ability to visualize relationships between threat characteristics, exploit indicators and courses of action is unparalleled for analyzing threat intelligence. Jedediah Haile INL’s TREAD can be used in the design and routing of new transmission lines. 8