Through eight preparedness grant programs this year, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will provide more than $2 billion in funding to state, local, Tribal, and territorial officials to prevent, protect against and respond to terrorism.
For Fiscal Year 2023, the grants were focused on the nation’s highest-risk areas. This will include funding for 40 high-threat, high-density urban areas through the Urban Area Security Initiative. This year, four more urban areas were added to its reach and funding, including Austin, Texas; Honolulu, Hawaii; Jacksonville, Florida; and Nashville, Tennessee.
“The new threat landscape now includes medium- and small-sized jurisdictions and remote locations and encompasses a greater swath of our country than ever before, to include so-called ‘soft targets’ and other targets of opportunity,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. “This year, we are therefore expanding the reach of our more than $2 billion in funding by adding four additional urban areas as grant recipients…This is in addition to the thirty-six urban areas we continue to support, bringing the total number of funded urban areas to 40.”
Under the law, at least 25 percent of the combined funds for the State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) and the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) must be given to Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Activities (LETPA), though last year DHS raised that minimum requirement to 30 percent – a $51.5 million increase. This year, DHS raised the minimum to 35 percent, meaning this year will bring $360.5 million for LETPA and law enforcement actions related to terrorist activity.
More to the point, this year’s grant recipients included four non-competitive awards:
Additionally, competitive awards were also issued, with their specifics to follow later this year:
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