The Department of Homeland Security – FEMA is soliciting applications for its Homeland Security Grant Program.
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/24/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) is one of the three grant programs that constitute the DHS/FEMA focus on enhancing the ability of state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as nonprofits, to prevent, protect against, and respond to terrorist attacks. These grant programs are part of a comprehensive set of measures authorized by Congress and implemented by DHS to help strengthen the Nation’s communities against potential terrorist attacks.
In FY 2024, there are three components of the HSGP:
- State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)
- SHSP assists state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) efforts to build, sustain, and deliver the capabilities necessary to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism.
- Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)
- UASI assists high-threat, high-density Urban Area efforts to build, sustain, and deliver the capabilities necessary to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism.
- Operation Stonegarden (OPSG)
- OPSG supports enhanced cooperation and coordination among Customs and Border Protection (CBP), United States Border Patrol (USBP), and federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to improve overall border security.
Goal
The HSGP will fund SLTT efforts and strengthen capabilities of SLTT governments to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to terrorist attacks and other threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk to the security of the United
States.
Objectives
HSGP provides resources that support eligible SLTT governments; high density urban areas, and SLTT law enforcement along international land/water borders and travel corridors in meeting the following objectives:
- Build and sustain core capabilities, including Law Enforcement and Terrorism
- Prevention Activities and the National Priority Areas
- Address capability gaps identified in their Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR) process; and
- Implement a comprehensive and coordinated approach to address enduring security needs of communities that includes planning, training and awareness campaigns, equipment and capital projects, and exercises.
Priorities
The following are the six priority areas for FY 2024, along with the minimum corresponding percentage of SHSP and UASI funds that each recipient will be required to allocate:
- Enhancing the protection of soft targets/crowded places – no minimum percent
- Enhancing information and intelligence sharing and analysis – no minimum percent
- Combating domestic violent extremism – no minimum percent
- Enhancing cybersecurity – no minimum percent
- Enhancing community preparedness and resilience – no minimum percent
- Enhancing election security – 3
Funding information
Available Funding for the NOFO: $1,008,000,000
Period of Performance
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
The SAA is the only entity eligible to submit HSGP applications to DHS/FEMA, including those applications submitted on behalf of UASI and OPSG applicants. All 56 states and territories, including any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the FY 2024 HSGP NOFO
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, are eligible to apply for SHSP funds. Tribal
governments may not apply directly for HSGP funding; however, funding may be available
to tribes through the SAA.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
