DHS funding opportunity announcement

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) is launching the Border Interoperability Demonstration Project (BIDP), a new competitive demonstration grant program designed to identify innovative solutions to emergency communications challenges along and across the border. Legislation authorizes OEC to select no fewer than six communities (at least three along the U.S.-Canadian border and at least three along the U.S.-Mexican border) for participation in the demonstration project. The full Funding Opportunity Announcement is posted at http://www.grants.gov/. The Funding Opportunity number is DHS-10-PD-120-001.

You may share the attached information with your stakeholders at the State, local, and tribal level. They should then contact their respective State Administrative Agencies about the application process.

If you have any questions, please contact BIDP@hq.dhs.gov

Thank you,

Laura Mizhir
BIDP Program Manager

BIDPInformationBulletin.pdf

BIDPFAQs.pdf