Call for Papers

Military and Civilian Critical Infrastructure (CI) stands out as prime targets for global attackers due to their critical role in operations. The 2nd IEEE MILCOM workshop on "Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure Security (ICSCI)" invites contributions in the realm of enhancing security and resilience in military and civilian critical infrastructure, industrial control systems (ICS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and operational technology (OT).

We welcome papers exploring innovative approaches for bolstering the security and resiliency of CI, ICS, SCADA and OT environments. Topics of interest include security, resilience, and perseverance of Critical Infrastructure, Industrial Control Systems, SCADA networks and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This includes novel techniques deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) for intrusion and anomaly detection, machine learning for prevention of security threats, trust and privacy for operational technology (OT). We also encourage submissions that delve into the security and resilience of interconnected systems, spanning from traditional ICS and SCADA to operational technology and industrial internet of things (IIoT).


Participants are encouraged to submit their work on novel approaches to security tailored specifically for the unique challenges posed by CI, ICS, SCADA and OT infrastructures. Through this workshop, we aim to foster discussions and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners aiming to advance the state-of-the-art in securing critical industrial systems.

List of Topics

In this workshop, we invite the academic and industrial research community in CI, ICS, SCADA and OT security to submit works related to the field and revolving around the following topic areas:

• Novel methods for ICS/CPS/IIoT/SCADA security and resiliency.
• Artificial Intelligence techniques for improving CI/ICS/SCADA/OT security and resiliency.
• Machine Learning (ML) / Deep Learning (DL) methods for detection and prevention of CI/ICS/SCADA/OT security threats.
• Applications of Large Language Models (LLM) and Generative AI for securing CI/ICS/SCADA/OT and increasing resiliency.
• Autonomous, self-managing security systems for CI/ICS/SCADA/OT.
• Autonomic security management for CI/ICS/SCADA/OT.
• Ransomware Attacks detection and prevention in ICS networks.
• OT Supply Chain security.
• IoT, IIoT Security.
• Security of Cloud integration into OT.

The list above is by no means exhaustive, as the aim is to foster the debate around all aspects of security (offensive/defensive), resiliency and privacy methods for critical infrastructure.

Organizing Committee

• Dr. Christopher Rauff (JHUAPL)
• Dr. Lanier Watkins (JHUAPL)
• Dr. Ali Tekeoglu (JHU)
• Joe Mario P.E. (JHUAPL)

Publication

ICSCI 2026 proceedings will be published in IEEEXplore database, under MILCOM'26 proceedings.

Venue

The conference will be held in National Capital Region, USA.

Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center (5701 Marinelli Rd, Rockville, MD 20852 USA)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ali.tekeoglu@jhu.edu

Sponsors

L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, RTX, Peraton, MITRE, JHUAPL, MAVENIR, SWRI, Cohere Technologies, Nokia Federal...