DHS Releases Grant Guidance and Numbers for FY18

Emergency managers and others have come to expect the timeline we've seen for many years now. Congress doesn't pass a spending bill before the fiscal year begins, so all the eventual grantees (assuming the award announcements will come in August or NLT the end of September) lose one year of work time. And, just naming the awardees does not mean that you have a contract and work can proceed. Here in Washington state, State Homeland Security Program funding and contracts didn't come out until 2018 for the FY 2017 grant cycle.

The details are at DHS Announces Funding Opportunity for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Preparedness Grants.

Let the grant games begin!

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