Securing the Cities (STC) Program

Funding Opportunity Number: DHS-14-DNDO-106-001 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Disaster Prevention and ReliefCFDA Number: 97.106Eligible Applicants County governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: DHS-OPOClosing Date: May 20, 2014Award Ceiling: $5,600,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Feb 19, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: The Securing the Cities (STC) Program seeks to reduce the risk of a successful deployment of a nuclear terrorist weapon against a major metropolitan regions in the United States by establishing sustainable capability among state, local, and tribal agencies to detect and report unauthorized radiological/nuclear (rad/nuc) materials within their jurisdictions supporting the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA). The STC Program has three primary goals: (1) to enhance regional capabilities to detect, identify and interdict nuclear materials that are out of regulatory control; (2) to guide the coordination of Federal, State, local and tribal entities in their roles defined by the GNDA; and (3) to encourage participants to sustain base nuclear detection program over time. To accomplish these goals, the DNDO developed the following o...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Disaster Prevention and Relief Source Type: funding