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Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) (Part D): Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) (Select Areas) - FY 2025

Agency: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
CFDA: 97.067
Federal FON: DHS-25-GPD-067-00-98
Office: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate (GPD)
Multipart Grant: Yes
Next Due: 08/15/2025 (Application)
Solicitation Date: 07/28/2025
   
Match Required: No
Actual Funds: $1,008,000,000 (Confirmed)
Range: $553,500,000 (Max)
Summary:

The purpose of this program is to enhance the ability of state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments, as well as nonprofit organizations, to prevent, protect against, and respond to terrorist attacks. This program is part of the funding agency's comprehensive set of measures to help strengthen the nation's communities against potential terrorist attacks.

All assets supported in part or entirely through this program must be readily deployable and National Incident Management System (NIMS)-typed, when possible, to support emergency or disaster operations per existing Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) agreements.

All emergency communications investments must align with needs identified in the applicant's statewide communication interoperability plan (SCIP). Applicants must also coordinate with their statewide interoperability coordinator (SWIC) and/or statewide interoperability governing body (SIGB) when developing the emergency communications investment, as detailed on pages 37-38 of the NOFA file.

Funding will be provided for the following program components:

  • (Part A): State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)
  • (Part D): Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)
  • (Part G): Operation Stonegarden (OPSG)

The purpose of the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) component is to support high-risk urban areas' efforts to address their unique security needs. The program aims to build, sustain, and improve capabilities to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism. This component focuses on enabling urban areas to address identified security gaps, increase interagency coordination, and strengthen critical infrastructure protection to reduce vulnerabilities in locations facing heightened risks. For FY 2025, this component's national priority areas (NPAs) are:

  • Enhancing the protection of soft targets and crowded places, including faith-based organizations and election sites
  • Supporting Homeland Security task forces and fusion centers
  • Enhancing and integrating cybersecurity resiliency
  • Enhancing election security
  • Supporting border crisis response and enforcement, through activities that may include:
    • Participation in the Department of Homeland Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement 287(g) training program
    • Cooperation with immigration and customs enforcement detainers
    • Other jurisdictional responsibilities to support the enforcement of U.S. immigration law

Funding will also support activities to address capability gaps identified through the threat and hazard identification and risk assessment (THIRA) and stakeholder preparedness review (SPR) process. Applicants should also consider allocating funding across core capability gaps and national priorities to address the following enduring needs that will help the implementation of a comprehensive approach to securing communities:

  • Effective planning
  • Training and awareness campaigns
  • Equipment and capital projects
  • Exercises

All applicants must complete a THIRA/SPR.

Refer to pages 14-22 of the NOFA file for additional information regarding each priority area and enduring need, including examples of eligible activities.

All projects must have a demonstrated nexus to achieving target capabilities related to preventing, preparing for, protecting against, and responding to acts of terrorism; however, projects may also help improve preparedness for other types of disasters.

All applicants must develop formal investment justifications (IJs) that address the proposed investments. Applicants must propose at least 2 and up to 12 investments. Within each investment, applicants must propose one or more projects.

Applicants must propose one IJ and at least one respective project for the enhancing election security priority area. All projects associated with the minimum spend of a priority area must be submitted in the same IJ. Each IJ must address the minimum spending requirements, as detailed in the Financial section, for both the enhancing election security and the supporting border crisis response and enforcement categories.

Applicants must also identify a fusion center project that will indicate alignment to a designated fusion center. Applicants must coordinate with the designated fusion center when developing the fusion center project.

Refer to pages 58-62 of the NOFA file for information regarding eligible costs for this component.

Eligibility is limited to state administrative agencies (SAAs) applying on behalf of select urban areas. Refer to the Eligibility section for details.

Eligibility Notes:

Eligible applicants are state administrative agencies (SAAs) applying on behalf of designated urban areas in Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. Refer to pages 55-56 of the NOFA file for a list of specific designated urban areas.

Applicants must develop formal investment justifications (IJs) that address the proposed investments. Applicants must propose at least 2 and up to 12 investments. Within each investment, applicants must propose one or more projects. Each IJ must address the minimum spending requirements, as detailed in the Financial section, for both the enhancing election security and the supporting border crisis response and enforcement categories.

All applicants must ensure and maintain adoption and implementation of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) prior to receiving any federal funding. 

Each SAA may submit only one application.

Each applicant must include at least one project in support of the state or territory's designated fusion center.

Tribal governments are not eligible to apply directly to this component for funding; however, funding may be available to tribes through the SAA.

Previous award recipients include:

  • Indiana
  • Georgia
  • New Jersey
  • Texas
  • North Carolina

Refer to the Award file for additional information regarding previous award recipients.

Eligible Applicants:
State Government
Application Notes:

Applications must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. ET on August 15, 2025.

Applications must be submitted online at go.fema.gov.

Applications must include:

  • SF 424
  • Certification regarding lobbying
  • SF 424A and/or SF 424C (as applicable)
  • SF 424B and/or SF 424D (as applicable)
  • SF LLL
  • Detailed budget
  • Pre-award costs information (if applicable)
  • Indirect cost rate agreement (if applicable)
  • IJs

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.

Refer to pages 37-40 of the NOFA file for information regarding the application evaluation process for this component, including application evaluation criteria.

Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.

Match Required: No
Actual Funds: $1,008,000,000 (Confirmed)
Range: $553,500,000 (Max)
Match Notes:

Matching funds are not required for this program; however, applicants are strongly encouraged to begin planning to sustain existing capabilities through funding mechanisms other than the funding agency's preparedness grant programs.

Funding Notes:

A total of $1,008,000,000 is available to support an anticipated 56 awards for this program overall, with $553.5 million available to support awards through this component. Refer to pages 55-56 of the NOFA file for a list of allocation amounts for each eligible urban area for this component.

Funding will be provided on a reimbursement basis.

Funding selections are anticipated to be made by August 23, 2025, and awards are anticipated to be made by September 30, 2025.

Project periods are expected to start on September 1, 2025, and end on August 31, 2027. Requests for extensions may be considered.

The recipient state administrative agency (SAA) must pass-through at least 80 percent of the total award amount to local or tribal units of government within 45 days of receipt of funds, as detailed on page 41 of the NOFA file.

Award recipients must allocate at least 30 percent of the total award amount to address the identified priority areas listed on page 13 of the NOFA file, with at least 3 percent of the total award amount allocated to the enhancing election security priority area, and at least 10 percent of the total award amount allocated to the supporting border crisis response and enforcement area. Award recipients will have the flexibility to allocate the remaining 17 percent of the required allocation across the priority areas. Refer to page 14 of the NOFA file for additional information regarding required allocations.

In addition, at least 35 percent of total funding awarded under this component and the State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) component of this program, known in eCivis Grants Network as US2790A, must be allocated to law enforcement terrorism prevention activities (LETPAs), as detailed on page 13 and page 30 of the NOFA file.

Management and administration (M&A) costs are limited to 5 percent of the total award amount.

Personnel costs are limited to 50 percent of the total award amount, unless a waiver is approved by the funding agency.

Funds may not be transferred between programs, including the State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) and Operation Stonegarden (OPSG) components of this program, known in eCivis Grants Network as US2790A and US2790G, respectively.

Funds may not be used for:

  • Purchase of firearms; ammunition; grenade launchers; bayonets; or weaponized aircraft, vessels, or vehicles of any kind with weapons installed
  • Maintenance or wear and tear costs of general use vehicles, medical supplies, and emergency response apparatus
  • Equipment that is purchased for permanent installation and/or use, beyond the scope of the conclusion of the project
  • Support the hiring of sworn public safety officers for purposes of fulfilling traditional public safety duties or to supplant traditional public safety positions and responsibilities
  • Matching funds for any other federal award
  • Lobbying
  • Prosecuting claims against the federal government or any other government entity
  • Certain telecommunications equipment or services
  • Pre-award costs, unless prior written approval is provided by the funding agency
  • International travel, unless approved in advance by the funding agency

Refer to pages 58-62 of the NOFA file for additional information regarding ineligible costs.

For FY 2024, a total of $553.5 million was allocated through this component. For FY 2023, a total of $615 million was allocated. Refer to the Award file for details.

Contacts:

Primary Contact:

Program Staff
(800) 368-6498
fema-grants-news@fema.dhs.gov

Grant Programs Directorate (GPD) Award Administration Division (AAD) Contact:

Program Staff
ASK-GMD@fema.dhs.gov

Office of Civil Rights Contact:

Program Staff
FEMA-CivilRightsOffice@fema.dhs.gov

Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Contact:

Program Staff
FEMA-OEHP-NOFOQuestions@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 appropriate program contact, or to the funding agency's appropriate regional office listed online at www.fema.gov/about/regions.

Applications must be submitted online at go.fema.gov.

The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.

Files:
NOFA File: US2790D_NOFA_FY2025.pdf (827.7 Kb)
Guide File: US2790D_Guide_FY2025.pdf (1.3 Mb)
Award File: US2790D_Award_FY2025.pdf (2.5 Mb)
Federal Forms:
SPOC (67.7 Kb)
File Notes:

The NOFA file contains the full solicitation for this program. The Guide file contains the funding agency's preparedness grants manual. 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.

Project: PA - Pittsburgh Urban Area Application (4.8 Mb)
Applicant: Pittsburgh Urban Area, and the Southwest Pennsylvania Emergency Response Group (Region 13 Task Force)
Summary:

The purpose of this program is to support state and local efforts to prevent terrorism and other catastrophic events, and to prepare the United States for the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk to national security. The Pittsburgh Urban Area and the Southwest Pennsylvania Emergency Response Group requested a total of $3 million to address gaps related to prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery, which were identified in their needs assessment. Funding was requested to support core recovery capabilities, such as physical protective measures, supply chain integrity and security, planning, operational coordination, mass search and rescue operations, and intelligence and information sharing.

 
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Grant Categories
Disaster Preparedness
Information Technology/Telecommunications
Law Enforcement
Domestic Preparedness/Homeland Security
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