Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program For At-Risk Communities

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
GrantFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency
$1,000,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Each annual $100 million tranche has a 4-year period of availability
Program Description Provide grants to communities at risk from wildfire to develop or revise their community wildfire protection plans and carry out projects described within those plans. It will include a mix of formula and competitive funds.
Eligible Uses Under development
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Continuing Authorities Program (Under Flood Control Act And River And Harbor Act)

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct FederalFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Defense - Army Corps of EngineersAgency
$465,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description Funds eligible small Army Corps projects, including $115 million for restoring fish and wildlife passage.
Eligible Uses A variety of water resources projects which must meet program eligibility requirements, including a total Federal cost limit of ~$10 million.
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Contracts And Agreements For Restoration On Federal Lands

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Contracts and AgreementsFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$50,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Funding available until expended for total amount across entire Program ($905 million), but portions of the total are allocated to specific fiscal years, each with a different period of availability
Program Description Contracts for ecological health restoration, to be enacted on no fewer than 10,000 acres of Federal land, including Indian forest land or rangeland
Eligible Uses Entering into contracts, including stewardship contracts or agreements, to restore ecological health on Federal land, including Indian forest land or rangeland and for salaries and expenses associated with preparing and executing those contracts.
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Countering Violent Extremism

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
ContractFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Homeland SecurityAgency
$12,800,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Five Year
Program Description Acts of violence can pose a significant impact to American lives and Federal, State, local, and Tribal governments. This Program aims to conduct evidence-based research to meet the policy, operational, and public needs to improve effectiveness of public safety and violence prevention efforts implemented by Federal, State, territorial, Tribal, local, and non-governmental stakeholders.
Eligible Uses Public safety and violence prevention to evaluate "�soft target"� security, including countering improvised explosive device events and protection of U.S. critical infrastructure.
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Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Research

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
ContractFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Homeland SecurityAgency
$69,806,250.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability 5 Year
Program Description This program oversees activities performed under the Infrastructure Act and reports to Congress on the progress of Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Research program's research and development activities.
Eligible Uses Planning tools for special event risk assessments rating. Electromagnetic pulse and geo-magnetic disturbance resilience capabilities. Positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities. Public safety and violence prevention to evaluate "�soft target"� security, including countering improvised explosive device events and protection of U.S. critical infrastructure. Research supporting security testing capabilities relating to telecommunications equipment, industrial control systems, and open-source software.
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Cyber Response and Recovery Fund

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Contract, Grant, Cooperative AgreementFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Homeland SecurityAgency
$100,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability 5 year
Program Description This fund is a provision of the Cyber Response and Recovery Act (Section 70601 of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law). It is based on a Cyberspace Solarium Commission recommendation, and at a high level, is a cyber Stafford Act which also establishes a fund (the Cyber Response and Recovery Fund) that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency can tap into in the event of a significant cyber incident when other resources are insufficient.
Eligible Uses Coordinate asset response activities and engage in response and recovery activities, including grants or cooperative agreements in response to significant cyber incidents.
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Cybersecurity

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
ContractFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Homeland SecurityAgency
$14,500,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability 5 year
Program Description This program researches, analyzes, and develops technologies to strengthen defensive cybersecurity capabilities in a spectrum of strategic technical areas to mitigate risk to the Nation's critical infrastructure, Federal departments and agencies, as well as State, territorial, Tribal and local organizations.
Eligible Uses Research supporting security testing capabilities relating to telecommunications equipment and industrial control systems.
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Cybersecurity for the Energy Sector Research, Development, and Demonstration Program

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Cooperative Agreement /Contract / Lab CallsFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of EnergyAgency
$250,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description To support development and deployment of advanced cyber applications, technologies, and threat collaboration efforts with the U.S. energy sector.
Eligible Uses Eligible uses include -- (A) to develop advanced cybersecurity applications and technologies for the energy sector; (B) to leverage electric grid architecture as a means to assess risks to the energy sector, including by implementing an all-hazards approach to communications infrastructure, control systems architecture, and power systems architecture; (C) to perform pilot demonstration projects with the energy sector to gain experience with new technologies; (D) to develop workforce development curricula for energy sector-related cybersecurity; and (E) to develop improved supply chain concepts for secure design of emerging digital components and power electronics.
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Department of Interior Wildfire Management - Burned Area Rehabilitation

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal spending, possibly Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s), Contract(s)Funding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$325,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Funding available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year)
Program Description To mitigate the damaging effects of wildfires and set landscapes on a path towards natural recovery and climate resilience through post-fire restoration and rehabilitation activities.
Eligible Uses Post wildfire restoration activities that are implemented not later than 3-years after the date a wildfire is contained.
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Department of Interior Wildfire Management - Preparedness

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal spending, possibly Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s) and/or Grant(s), possibly Contract(s)Funding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$245,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Funding available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year)
Program Description The Preparedness Program funds a range of actions that helps the Federal government prepare to respond to wildland fire. These include hiring people, training them, tracking their qualifications, and planning our wildland fire response ahead of time. It also provides for the purchasing of equipment for early wildfire detection, real-time monitoring and radios to support interoperability with interagency partners; financial assistance to local communities to purchase slip-on tanks; and increases in firefighter pay and other firefighter workforce reforms.
Eligible Uses To increase the compensation and number of Federal wildland firefighters to build a permanent, year-round workforce; increase the Nation's preparedness to fight wildfires through satellite detection and the procurement and placement of early-warning wildfire detection and real-time monitoring equipment; improve radio interoperability; increase training of youth, including Native youth, to accelerate the pace and scale of hazardous fuels treatments; and to provide financial assistance to local governments to purchase slip-on tanker units to ready trucks for firefighting.
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Develop And Publish Every 5 Years A Map Depicting At-Risk Communities, Including Tribal Communities

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal SpendingFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency
$1,200,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description The Forest Service will develop and publish every five years a map depicting at-risk communities, including Tribal communities.
Eligible Uses N/A
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Direct Federal Spending (Or Other) For National Revegetation Strategy

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal SpendingFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$70,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Funding available until expended for total amount across entire Program ($905 million), but portions of the total are allocated to specific fiscal years, each with a different period of availability
Program Description Funding to implement a national revegetation effort on private and public lands
Eligible Uses Programs and projects to implement a national revegetation effort on Federal and non-Federal lands, including to implement the National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration.
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