The 2025 Intercity Bus Security Grant Program (IBSGP) is one of four grant programs that constitute the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) focus on transportation infrastructure security activities.
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/15/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
These grant programs are part of a comprehensive set of measures authorized by Congress and implemented by DHS to help strengthen the nation’s critical infrastructure against potential terrorist attacks. The IBSGP provides funds to intercity bus companies to protect critical surface transportation infrastructure and the travelling public from acts of terrorism.
Goals, Objectives, and Priorities
- Goals: Strengthen the nation’s critical transportation infrastructure against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks.
- Objectives: The IBSGP achieves this through the following objectives:
- Building and sustaining core capabilities (identified in the National Preparedness Goal) relevant to transit security and the annual NPAs (see priorities below);
- Addressing and closing gaps identified in agency vulnerability assessments and security plans; and
- Continuously engaging in a process of emergency related planning, exercising, and training. Using this cycle to test plans, validate capabilities, identify gaps, inform investments, and continuously update plans to reflect organizational changes, as well as findings from exercises and real-world events.
- Priorities: Given the evolving threat landscape, it is incumbent upon DHS/FEMA to continuously evaluate the national risk profile and set priorities that help ensure appropriate allocation of scarce security dollars. The FY 2025 NPAs reflect FEMA’s broader mission across all preparedness efforts. Applicants should be familiar with these NPAs, as they represent DHS’s current focus areas and may shape future guidance:
- Enhancing Protection of Soft Targets/Crowded Places
- Supporting Homeland Security Task Forces and Fusion Centers
- Enhancing Cybersecurity
- Enhancing Election Security
- Supporting Border Crisis Response and Enforcement
- Enduring needs include:
Funding Information
$20,000– $1,800,000.
Grant Period
09/01/2025 to 08/31/2027.
Eligibility Criteria
For profit organizations other than small businesses.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
