Next Generation Warning System Grant (NGWSP) Program - FY 2025
| Agency: | U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
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| CFDA: | 97.138 |
| Federal FON: | DHS-25-IPAWS-138-00-99 |
| Office: | Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of National Continuity Programs |
| Multipart Grant: | No |
| Next Due: | 08/15/2025 (Application) |
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| Solicitation Date: | 08/06/2025 |
| Match Required: | No |
| Actual Funds: | $40,000,000 (Estimated) |
| Award: | $8,000,000 (Estimated) |
| Number of Awards: | 5 (Estimated) |
Summary:
The purpose of this program is to identify capability gaps and implement solutions for alert and warning to deliver timely public warning and emergency information and to protect critical infrastructure. In view of the rapid changes in technology, cybersecurity threats, and public preferences for consuming content, award recipients will work with the funding agency to explore currently available, flexible, innovative, and forward-looking capabilities to disseminate emergency alerts and warnings across existing and new distribution pathways, including streaming services, sirens, giant-voice systems, satellites, internet-connected devices, and other solutions. Award recipients will pursue the following objectives:
- Integrate effective, reliable, available, and timely alert and warning capabilities to enhance public emergency communications
- Test and deploy proven common-sense tools, pathways, and technologies that support advanced visual and audio alerts
- Coordinate and execute whole-community public warning field training, testing, exercise, and evaluation in collaboration with the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) and federal, state, local, tribal, and private-sector partners, including broadcasters and wireless carriers, to support the development of alert and warning governance, policies, plans, and procedures while improving cross-jurisdictional coordination before, during, and after incidents
Ultimately, projects will help support a reliable, resilient, and consistent capability for local, state, territorial, tribal, and federal public safety officials to deliver timely public warning and emergency information.
Project activities are limited to the following:
- Installation of IPAWS-compatible sirens and/or "giant voice" systems
- Coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to enhance signals and availability for NOAA weather radios
- Integration and deployment of emergency alert datacasting technology
- Deployment of systems and technologies that enable the dissemination of advanced visual and audio alerts, such as to digital billboards, signage, and kiosks
- Integration of IPAWS alerts in internet of things (IoT) devices
- Integration of satellite-based alert and warning technologies, automated message origination and distribution capabilities, and other emerging capabilities
- Development of alert and warning state and local field testing, training, and exercise programming in collaboration with the funding agency and federal, state, and local alert and warning partners
- Deploying capabilities to increase alert and warning coverage to rural areas and other locations across states with limited communications access
Refer to pages 9-10 of the NOFA file for information regarding the program's performance measures, as well as required project milestones.
Eligibility Notes:
Eligible applicants are states, including territories, and Indian tribes.
Award recipients may make subawards to other entities. If subapplicants include foreign nationals, they must be properly vetted and must adhere to all government statutes, policies, and procedures.
Each applicant may submit only one application.
Eligible Applicants:
Native American TribeState Government
Application Notes:
Applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET on August 15, 2025.
Applications must be submitted online at go.fema.gov.
Applications must include:
- SF 424
- Grants.gov lobbying form
- SF 424A and/or SF 424C (as applicable)
- SF 424B and/or SF 424D (as applicable)
- SF LLL
- Work plan narrative
- Budget
- Master schedule/deliverable table
- Competitive subaward process description (if applicable)
- Milestone schedule
- Overall approach for managing the purchase and redistribution of consumer devices that can receive emergency alerts (if applicable)
The following are required in order to submit an application:
- Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
- SAM (System for Award Management) registration
- SPOC (state Single Point of Contact) notification
Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam. Applicants in states participating in the SPOC program must contact the relevant SPOC listed in the SPOC file before applying.
Applications will be evaluated using the following criteria:
- Vulnerability addressed (25 points)
- Capability gap (25 points)
- Solution (25 points)
- Cost, complexity, and implementation management (15 points)
- Learning opportunities (10 points)
Refer to pages 17-19 of the NOFA file for additional details regarding the program's evaluation criteria.
Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.
| Match Required: | No |
|---|---|
| Actual Funds: | $40,000,000 (Estimated) |
| Award: | $8,000,000 (Estimated) |
|---|---|
| Number of Awards: | 5 (Estimated) |
Match Notes:
Matching funds are not required for this program.
Funding Notes:
An estimated $40 million is available to support approximately five cooperative agreements of up to an estimated $8 million each.
Funding to recipients other than states will be provided on a reimbursement basis.
Award selections are expected to be made on September 20, 2025. Awards are expected to be issued no later than September 29, 2025.
Project periods will begin on October 1, 2025, and end on September 30, 2028. Refer to page 10 of the NOFA file for additional information regarding required project milestones. Extensions of project periods may be allowed.
Management and administration (M&A) costs may not exceed 5 percent of awards. Subrecipients may also use up to 5 percent of the funds they receive for M&A costs.
Funds may not be used for:
- Purchases and services that are not directly related to advancing public alert and warning capabilities
- Pre- or post-award costs
- Matching or cost sharing requirements for other federal grants and cooperative agreements
- Lobbying or other prohibited activities
- Prosecuting claims against the federal government or any other government entity
- Indirect costs
- Covered surveillance or equipment, as detailed on page 12 of the NOFA file
Contacts:
Program Staff
(202) 646-2500
fema-ipaws-ngwsgp@fema.dhs.gov
Agency Address
Federal Emergency Management Agency
P.O. Box 10055
Hyattsville, MD 20782-8055
Contact Notes:
Questions should be directed to the program staff using the information provided, or to the appropriate program contact listed on pages 4-5 of the NOFA file.
Applications must be submitted online at go.fema.gov.
The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.
File Notes:
The NOFA file contains the full solicitation for this program. The SPOC file contains information on the state Single Point of Contact program. Detailed guidelines for the funding agency’s application submission portal can be found online at www.fema.gov/grants/guidance-tools/fema-go.
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