Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 National Incident Management System (NIMS) | DHS 19 NPD 107 00 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 National Incident Management System (NIMS) grant opportunity is a FEMA cooperative agreement designed to strengthen how states and territories coordinate and share emergency resources during major incidents. The core idea behind the program is that catastrophic disasters can overwhelm any single jurisdiction, so response and recovery depend on many partners being able to work together quickly using common structures, shared terminology, and proven coordination processes. FEMA frames this within its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, emphasizing the need to posture the whole community to provide life-saving and life-sustaining commodities, equipment, and personnel from all available sources when incidents exceed local or state capacity.

This opportunity specifically supports the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), which is a congressionally ratified, non-federal mutual aid agreement that enables state-to-state resource sharing across state lines during governor-declared emergencies. EMAC has nationwide participation, with signatories including all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Because EMAC already has established working relationships across states, regions, territories, and key federal partners such as FEMA and the National Guard Bureau, it can help move a broad range of assets where they are needed, including personnel, equipment, and commodities. In practical terms, EMAC is meant to make mutual aid more predictable and reliable by providing a consistent approach to requesting help, deploying resources, managing them while they are operating in another state, and then handling their return.

The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) focuses on helping EMAC develop and maintain a consistent national system for the request, dispatch, use, and return of resources that support local capabilities during incident response and recovery. A major emphasis is on building multi-jurisdictional and interstate mechanisms that can coordinate incident management and obtain assistance during large-scale, complex, or catastrophic events. FEMA ties this directly to the National Preparedness System (NPS) and the National Preparedness Goal, with the intent of strengthening and sustaining the core capabilities needed for a secure and resilient nation. The program is also positioned as supporting the Quadrennial Homeland Security Report (QHSR), particularly Mission 5 on strengthening national preparedness and resilience and the goal of ensuring effective emergency response.

Administratively, this is a discretionary cooperative agreement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), specifically FEMA, under CFDA 97.107 (Disaster Prevention and Relief). The award ceiling is $2,000,000, and FEMA anticipated making one award. While the eligibility category is listed broadly as 501(c)(3) nonprofits (other than institutions of higher education), the NOFO makes clear that there is only one eligible recipient for this specific cooperative agreement: the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA). NEMA is the nonprofit organization that manages and administers EMAC and represents emergency management directors across the states, territories, and the District of Columbia. In other words, this funding is structured to flow to the organization responsible for EMAC operations rather than being a competitive grant open to multiple applicants.

Key dates included in the opportunity listing show it was created on July 22, 2019, with an original closing date of August 23, 2019. Overall, the grant is meant to reinforce nationwide readiness by improving the systems that allow states and territories to quickly share resources and coordinate operations under NIMS principles, so that when incidents escalate beyond local capacity, assistance can be mobilized efficiently and integrated smoothly into a unified response and recovery effort.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the disaster prevention and relief sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 National Incident Management System (NIMS)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.107.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 22, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 23, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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