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Last Updated: May 13, 2022 | Press Releases

DHS Announces $1.6 Billion in Preparedness Grants

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced $1.6 billion for eight Fiscal Year 2022 preparedness grant programs. Together, these programs provide critical funding to help state and local officials prepare for, prevent, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism and other hazards. This funding is in addition to the $405.1 million announced last month for the Emergency Management Performance Grant Program.

Last Updated: April 22, 2022 | Press Releases

DHS Announces Cooling Solutions Prize Challenge Finalists in Celebration of Earth Day

In celebration of Earth Day, DHS announced the finalists in the Cooling Solutions Challenge prize competition.

Last Updated: April 8, 2022 | Speeches

National Action Network Convention 2022

On April 8, 2022, Secretary Mayorkas delivered the following remarks to the National Action Network’s annual convention: 

Last Updated: March 28, 2022 | Press Releases

Statement by Secretary Mayorkas on the President’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget

The Biden-Harris Administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2023. The President’s Budget details his vision to expand on the historic progress our country has made over the last year and delivers the agenda he laid out in his State of the Union address—to build a better America, reduce the deficit, reduce costs for families, and grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out. The President's Fiscal Year 2023 Budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is $97.3 billion, an increase of $6.5 billion from the Fiscal Year 2022 President’s Budget. 

Last Updated: March 24, 2022 | Press Releases

DHS S&T Releases Solicitation for Flood Data Collection & Analysis

DHS S&T is seeking technical capabilities to help FEMA, through its insurance directorate FIMA, improve preparedness and response efforts after flooding occurs.

Last Updated: February 7, 2022 | Press Releases

DHS SBIR Seeks Solutions to Detect Survivors in a Building Collapse

DHS SBIR Program is seeking information on technologies that can detect trapped survivors in collapsed buildings and voids.

Last Updated: January 21, 2022 | Press Releases

Los Departamentos de Seguridad Nacional y de Educación de EE. UU. publican un kit de herramientas de recursos federales para ayudar a reconstruir la infraestructura escolar de Puerto Rico

La Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés) del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés) y el Departamento de Educación de EE. UU. publicaron un kit de herramientas que describen los recursos federales disponibles para ayudar a Puerto Rico a recuperarse y reconstruir escuelas seguras, saludables y modernizadas. Los Departamentos de Energía y del Trabajo de EE. UU., así como la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EE. UU., colaboraron en el desarrollo de este kit de herramientas.

Last Updated: January 21, 2022 | Press Releases

U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Education Release Toolkit of Federal Resources to Help Rebuild Puerto Rico’s School Infrastructure

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the U.S. Department of Education released a toolkit outlining federal resources available to help Puerto Rico recover and rebuild safe, healthy, and modernized school facilities.  The Departments of Energy and Labor, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, also collaborated on the toolkit.

Last Updated: January 6, 2022 | Press Releases

DHS Statement on the Importance of Seeking Safety and Support Regardless of Immigration Status Following Recent Wildfires in Colorado

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working with its federal, state, local, and non-governmental partners to support the needs of the areas affected by the devastating wildfires in Colorado.

Last Updated: December 21, 2021 | Press Releases

DHS Statement on the Importance of Seeking Safety and Support Regardless of Immigration Status Following Recent Severe Weather in the South and Midwest

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working with its federal, state, local, and non-governmental partners to support the needs of the areas affected by the devastating severe weather and tornadoes in Kentucky and throughout the South and Midwest.