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Federal Emergency Management Agency: Grants and Training Office State Homeland Security Grants

The State Homeland Security Grant Program provides financial assistance directly to each of the states, territories, and the District of Columbia to enhance their capabilities for preventing and responding to incidents of terrorism including those involving weapons of mass destruction.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • At the national level, grants are allocated by formulas that do not incorporate risks, threats, or unmet capabilities. Allocation procedures at the state level vary, with some aligned to state homeland security strategies, and others based on per capita formulas.
  • The programs has lacked performance measures that measure specific preparedness capabilities or aggregate state-level preparedness. The National Preparedness Goal under development by DHS will identify national priorites and target capabilities for incorporation into a national assessment system.
  • The lack of consistent assesments for state and local homeland security capabilities has significantly hampered efforts to set priorities, target grant funding, and evaluate results.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Restructure the grant allocation process, providing the Secretary with greater discretion to award funds based on risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.
  • Accelerating implementation of performance measures based on National Preparedness Goals.
  • Completing a detailed needs assessment of state and local capabilities to guide Federal, state and local funding allocations.

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