FY2025 UASI Grant:

Important Dates:

• November 13th and 14th: Application kickoff webinars (MANDATORY)
• Application workshops
• January 6, 2025: applications due to the UASI by 5:00 PM (HARD DEADLINE)

Internal Jurisdiction Application Deadlines (hard deadlines)
Jurisdiction	Due date
Baytown (Leasa Lopez)	12/18/2024
Brazoria County (Steve Rosa)	12/19/2024
Fort Bend County (Rodney Grimmer and Shenae Mericle)	12/13/2024
Galveston County (Brad Burness)	12/18/2024
Harris County (Andrea Thomas & LaKeitha Jones)	12/16/2024
Houston (Alison Belcher)	12/16/2024
Montgomery County (Mark Seals)	12/16/2024
Pasadena (Azell Carter)	12/31/2024

• 01/06/2025 – 02/04/2025: UASI programmatic management team review and analysis of applications
• 02/05/2025: applications sent to committee chairs
• TBD: UASI committee meetings and application scoring
• TBD: FEMA releases NOFO
• TBD: UAWG and EC allocation
• TBD: State of Texas OOG RFA posted and eGrants UASI application kit opens
• TBD: all approved UASI projects (from the allocation list) entered and certified in eGrants

Application Documents:

• FY2025 UASI Application form NOTE: open this form in Adobe Acrobat; PDF forms are not supported by all web browsers.
• FY2025 UASI Budget worksheet NOTE: open this form in the Excel desktop app; some Excel functions are not supported by office 365.
• FY2025 UASI Package Coversheet

Supplemental application materials:

• Controlled/ prohibited equipment assurance

Sample Application:

• FY2025-UASI-Application-form_SAMPLE
• FY2025-UASI-Budget-worksheet_SAMPLE

Naming convention

• [title]: full name of your project as entered in application form and budget
• [jurisdiction]: a uniform abbreviation of your jurisdiction (e.g., COH, MC, HC, BAY)
• [type]: either “aform”, “budget”, or “supp” (supplemental, only as needed!)
• Convention: FY2024 UASI – [title]_[jurisdiction]_[type]

Examples (naming convention):

• FY2025 UASI – HFD Hazmat Sustainment_COH_aform
• FY2025 UASI – HFD Hazmat Sustainment_COH_budget
• FY2025 UASI – HFD Hazmat Sustainment_COH_supp
• Related project files should have the same project name and jurisdiction

*Applications submitted that do not follow the naming convention will be rejected

Supporting Documents:

• FY2025 UASI application workshop kickoff slides
• FY2025 UASI guidance for video applications
• FY2025 UASI guidance for ballistic protection applications
• FY2025 UASI guidance for CIKR Cyber applications
• FY2025 UASI guidance for interoperable communication applications
• FY2025 UASI guidance for sUAS (small Unmanned Aircraft Systems) applications
• 2023-2027 Houston UASI HS Strategic Plan (password protected)
• CY2025 Integrated Preparedness Plan (IPP) (password protected)
• State of Texas Homeland Security—Priority Actions (2021-2025)
• 2024 SPR Gap Statements (password protected)
• Authorized Equipment List (AEL) Codes
• 2018 UASI Application Budget Codes from HSGD
• 2024 Special Response Typed Teams in the H-GAC Region (2023)
• Resource Typing Library Tool
• Activities and Measures from HSGD
• FY2025 Homeland Security Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (will be posted after release, reference 2024)

Background information and grant resources

• FEMA HSGP (Homeland Security Grant Program) webpage
  • Previous year’s notices of funding opportunity
• Short Wikipedia entry on UASI
• FEMA HSGP overview
• Previous grant year’s information pages and links
  • FY2024
  • FY2023