WASHINGTON -- Today, FEMA is making $48 million available to states, territories and Tribal Nations under the Next Generation Warning System Grant Program (NGWSGP). This grant supports projects that identify capability gaps and implement solutions for alerts and warnings to deliver timely, public emergency information and protect critical infrastructure. With this funding, President Donald J. Trump is keeping his promise to reform federal disaster support and ensure that taxpayer money is spent only on projects that deliver safety and security to the American people.

As technology, cybersecurity threats and the public's content consumption preferences evolve, grant recipients will work with FEMA to explore available, flexible, innovative and forward-looking capabilities to disseminate emergency alerts and warnings.

"The NGWS grant provides federal support to modernize and strengthen state-led and locally executed public alert and warning capabilities," said Robert Fenton, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the FEMA Administrator. "This funding supports services, solutions and technologies that improve the timely delivery of emergency information by states, territories and Tribal Nations to the public."

This grant program focuses on enhancing IPAWS-compatible alert and warning capabilities, improving the emergency alert and warning system resiliency, and delivering timely public safety information through innovative services, solutions and technology.

Grant recipients will coordinate and execute collaborative, whole-community public warning field training, testing, exercises and evaluation to support the development of alert and warning governance, policies, plans and procedures while improving cross-jurisdictional coordination before, during and after incidents.

Eligible applicants should carefully review each Notice of Funding Opportunity to learn eligibility requirements, evaluation criteria and application periods. All Notices of Funding Opportunities are available on Grants.gov.

Two identical stakeholder webinars will be offered on July 21 and July 23, both at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. IPAWS program experts will be available to highlight the proposed project list in the funding opportunity as ways grantees can test, pilot and evaluate alerting capabilities. For more information, visit https://www.fema.gov/about/news-multimedia/events.