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DHS Announces Grant Guidance for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Preparedness Grants

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today announced the release of FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcements for eight U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) preparedness grant programs totaling over $1.5 billion to assist states, urban areas, tribal and territorial governments, non-profit agencies, and the private sector in strengthening our nation’s ability to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies in support of the National Preparedness Goal and the National Preparedness System.

Written testimony of NPPD for a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity hearing titled “Facilitating Cyber Threat Information Sharing & Partnering with the Private Sector to Protect Critical Infrastructure: An Assessment of DHS Capabilities”

DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Cybersecurity & Communications Acting Assistant Secretary Roberta Stempfley, and National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) Director Larry Zelvin address NCCIC’s role, responsibilities, and future planning to protect the Nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, secure Federal networks, and coordinate private sector cyber threat information sharing.

SHARES Current Operations

Operational Levels are designed to improve the responsiveness of the SCN during emergencies. SCN Operational Levels are defined as follows:

SHARES Interference Report

Reporting procedures for radio interference, within the SHARES Program, will take one of three routes:

Contact SHARES

If you have any questions or would like further information on the SHARES HF Radio Program, you may contact us in one of the following ways:

Email: ncsshares@hq.dhs.gov  

SHARES HF IWG

SHARES provides the Federal community a forum for addressing issues affecting HF radio interoperability.

SHARES Program Information

The SHARES HF Radio Program is one of the Office of Emergency Communications' (OEC) initiatives to provide communications to support all hazard situations. 

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