Tribal Homeland Security Grant

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The Tribal Homeland Security Grant offers funding to federally recognized tribal nations to enhance their ability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from potential terrorist attacks and other hazards.

Program objectives:

• Build and sustain core capabilities in accordance with annual program priorities
• Address identified capability gaps
• Implement a comprehensive, coordinated, and all-inclusive approach to address enduring security needs of communities that crosscut the homeland security enterprise, including planning, training and awareness campaigns, equipment and capital projects, and exercises

Priorities:

• Enhancing the protection of soft targets and crowded places
• Supporting Homeland Security Task Forces and fusion centers
• Enhancing and integrating cybersecurity resiliency
• Enhancing election security
• Supporting border enforcement

Planning efforts can include prioritizing needs; conducting risk and resilience assessments on increasingly connected cyber and physical systems, on which security depends, using the Infrastructure Resilience Planning Framework and related Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) resources; updating preparedness strategies; and allocating resources across stakeholder groups which may include law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services, healthcare systems, public health, behavioral health, public works, rural water associations, agriculture, information technology, emergency communications, the general public, people with disabilities, and levels of government.

Eligible applicants are federally recognized tribes that meet the criteria set forth in Section 2001 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and tribal consortia.

Award range: $40,000 - $2,000,000
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 20
Estimated total program funding: $14,250,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.