Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Preparedness Technical Assistance Program (HSPTAP) | DHS 24 NPD 007 00 99

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The Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Preparedness Technical Assistance Program (HSPTAP) is a FEMA discretionary funding opportunity designed to strengthen state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) readiness for major incidents, including terrorism, natural disasters, and other large-scale emergencies. The program focuses on practical technical assistance that helps partners prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from high-impact events, while supporting the broader National Preparedness Goal and the National Preparedness System. A central idea behind HSPTAP is that preparedness improves when leaders and practitioners across jurisdictions have reliable ways to share information, align on doctrine and best practices, and maintain ongoing collaboration that can be activated quickly during crises.

Funded organizations are expected to carry out a set of core activities that build capability through knowledge-sharing, convening, and leadership development. This includes producing and distributing written products on emerging homeland security, emergency management, and public safety issues, as well as documenting established or model state approaches that others can adapt. It also includes delivering educational seminars, trainings, and workshops, particularly aimed at bringing newly appointed Governors Homeland Security Advisors (HSAs) and Emergency Management Directors up to speed on federal homeland security doctrine, proven practices, and established principles that shape national preparedness. Another major component is facilitating recurring calls, meetings, and structured discussions among key stakeholder groups so they can regularly exchange lessons learned, surface emerging challenges, and compare approaches in real time. In addition, recipients are expected to convene larger trainings, workshops, and national-level forums that bring together HSAs, state, local, and tribal emergency management directors, and relevant public and private sector partners, with an emphasis on understanding how federal legislation, regulations, and policy changes affect state and local operations.

Beyond individual events or products, HSPTAP is meant to reinforce a national emergency management system that can use the full range of the nations resources during catastrophic incidents. The program encourages activities that incorporate perspectives from state and local elected officials and the private sector, effectively creating a broad sounding board for homeland security policy issues. In practice, this means establishing and maintaining dependable forums where organizations can exchange ideas, run targeted discussions on priority topics, and provide hands-on technical assistance to governors offices and partner associations on relevant homeland security policy areas. FEMA also intends for recipients to work closely with the agency to develop, transfer, and institutionalize knowledge at the state and local level, so that what is learned through convenings and technical assistance becomes embedded in routine practice rather than remaining informal or temporary.

The subject matter supported by HSPTAP is intentionally broad and covers the complex, cross-discipline work required for modern preparedness. Expected areas of emphasis include intelligence sharing, state homeland security organization and governance, communications interoperability, critical infrastructure protection, and all-hazards prevention, protection, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The program explicitly recognizes that these challenges cut across many communities of practice, including emergency management, homeland security, fire service, law enforcement, EMS, agriculture, the National Guard, emergency communications, and public works. The overall structure is meant to support all mission areas and core capabilities reflected in the National Preparedness System, with the underlying goal of improving coordination and operational readiness across all levels of government.

From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity is offered by the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, as a cooperative agreement under CFDA 97.007 (Disaster Prevention and Relief). Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (in both cases, other than institutions of higher education). FEMA anticipated making 2 awards, with an award ceiling of $200,000. The opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number DHS 24 NPD 007 00 99) was created on August 15, 2024, and the original application closing date listed is September 16, 2024. Applications are submitted through FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO) at https://go.fema.gov/.

• The Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the disaster prevention and relief sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Preparedness Technical Assistance Program (HSPTAP)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.007.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-08-15.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-09-16. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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