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House Appropriations Committee Approves DHS Funding Bill

By   /  May 24, 2013  /  Grants & Funding  /  No Comments

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The House Appropriations Committee approved the DHS funding bill.  The bill funds state and local programs at $1,500,000,000 The committee report has the interesting detail. Regarding the number of UASIs: The Committee is pleased that in fiscal year 2012, the Department began restoring the original intent of the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) program by [...]

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2013 Homeland Security Grant Program Summary

By   /  May 22, 2013  /  Grants & Funding  /  No Comments

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The 2013 FEMA grant guidance was just released today (May 21, 2013). This document is an unofficial summary of the grant guidance (as contained in the FOA and other documents) designed to provide a quick read of the highlights and some increased context to the guidance. Readers should refer to the official FEMA guidance and [...]

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Homeland Security Grants to States Gutted

By   /  April 29, 2013  /  Grants & Funding  /  No Comments

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In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, the state of Massachusetts, the city of Boston and federal authorities quickly joined together to respond to the emergency. But in recent years, federal funding for state homeland security efforts to respond to emergencies has been gutted.

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Measuring the Effectiveness of UASI Equipment in Real Time

By   /  April 24, 2013  /  Grants & Funding  /  No Comments

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Like everyone else, I am glued to MSNBC watching the events unfold in Boston. What I am seeing is living proof in real time that the money spent on coordinated anti-terrorism, on command and control, and on police equipment to combat real terrorist threats was in fact very well spent. Congress may think otherwise and [...]

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Boston 10th in Funds Received for ‘High Threat’ Urban Areas

By   /  April 24, 2013  /  Grants & Funding  /  No Comments

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Terrorism has been in the headlines in Boston before. Ten al-Qaida hijackers departed from Boston’s Logan airport on Sept. 11, 2001. And in 2012, Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Mass., a Boston suburb, was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida. But when the Department of Homeland Security originally assessed the threat of terror to 65 [...]

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