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With the emerging innovations to the electricity infrastructure (referred to as the smart grid), high levels of penetration of renewable energy, and an emphasis on competitive pricing, it will become necessary to optimize the safety margins presently allowed, and use existing equipment as optimally as possible. Maintaining reliable service and implementing emergency defense plans during major unintended disturbances and intended attacks is critical with the growth of the electric power network and its information infrastructure. The development of reliable and scalable intelligent monitoring and control algorithms, and situational awareness (SA) and situational intelligence (SI) technologies are needed as the smart grid is embracing synchrophasor and/or AMI data for operation analysis, making-decisions and implementing intelligent controls. This talk presented SA and SI, when and why they are needed in control center operations, and the recent advances and on-going research in the development of SA/SI systems for smart grid operations and control at the RTPIS Lab at Clemson University.