Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

Next meeting scheduled for September 2025

Details coming soon.

Supporting SBOM adoption across the energy sector community

DOE CESER is the sector risk management agency for the energy sector, and in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), leads the DOE CESER Energy Sector Software Bills of Materials (SBOM) and Hardware Bill of Materials (HBOM) Quarterly Working Group to support BOM adoption across the energy sector community. This working group supports BOM adoption through facilitating the discussion of use cases, research priorities, and ongoing challenges across ESIB stakeholders. Attendees include, but are not limited to, vendors, asset owners, and government stakeholders.

The Quarterly Working Group has evolved from the SBOM Proof of Concept Group, which began April 2021 to advance BOM development in the energy sector and share information with the stakeholder community.

Software Composition Analysis Tools: SCRM Value Add or Lossy Noise Machines?

In the June 2025 BOM Quarterly, Micaela Gallegos (LLNL) and Robert Erbes (INL) discuss their research on Commercial Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Tools. These commercially available tools offer an additional method for consumers to obtain Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs),..

Meeting Video Library

Towards SBOMs in the Nuclear Industry

A recording of DOE's bi-weekly meeting on SBOMs....

How to Build SBOM from Binaries

Using CyTRICS program research to tell a "round-about" story of SBOMs....

VEX Energy Overview

An update to VEX vulnerabilities and some tricks for addressing them....

Debrief of S4 SBOM Exercise

Discuss exercises and feedback from the S4x22 conference session; CISA working group updates and CycloneDx...

SBOM Transports

Energy Sector Software Bill of Materials discussion: survey results of software bill of materials transports....

Venues for SBOM Discussion

A review of SBOM’s activities from past year and preview of discussion opportunities and path...

Additional Resources

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) led an early multi-stakeholder effort to develop informational and technical resources for SBOMs between 2018-2021.

Click Learn More to review these foundational resources.

The Energy SBOM POC effort is a partnership between DOE CESER and DHS CISA. CISA is leading other SBOM-related efforts that inform and draw from this work. Click Learn More to review the CISA workstreams and resources.
April 30, 2021 Auburn University’s McCrary Institute hosted a panel discussion on growing policy support for BOMs, implementation challenges, and strategic use cases. Panelists include representatives from DOE, Idaho National Laboratory, NTIA, Unisys, and Microsoft Azure.
CESER Partners with CISA to Release New Framework for Software Bill of Materials Sharing.

Sponsor and Participating Organizations