Federal grant programs / Department of Defense

Community Economic Adjustment Assistance for Advance Planning and Economic Diversification (12.614)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$2.3 million
• Grant awards6
• Typical award$317,914
• Awarded in FY 2025$179,825
• Size rank1,736 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceProject grants

Key findings

• Annual funding fell from $455,828 in fiscal 2021 to $179,825 in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 1736th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 6 largest recipients received 100% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 6 states and territories.

What the program funds

Assist State and local governments to lessen an area's dependence on defense expenditures by preparing economic diversification strategies, and contingency strategies and schematic land use plans for the potential redevelopment of a military installation prior to closure or realignment decisions.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Applicants for this assistance are to contact the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation and a Project Manager will be assigned to work with the applicant to determine eligibility for assistance under this program. States, counties, municipalities, other political subdivisions of a State, special purpose units of a State or local government, and tribal nations are eligible for this assistance if a substantial portion of the economic activity or population of the applicant's geographic area is dependent on defense expenditures. The Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation must determine, in consultation with the affected state or community, that a substantial portion of the economic activity or population of the geographic area subject to the planning under this program is dependent on Department of Defense (Defense) expenditures. For purposes of eligibility determination, an area is considered Defense-dependent if it can demonstrate: (1) Direct military and civilian employment totals at least one and a half times the national level of Defense employment as a percent of the total U.S. labor force or (2) Defense-related expenditures comprise at least one and a half times the Defense percent of gross domestic product. The National Defense Budget Estimates for FY2023 states that the 2021 Defense employment as a percent of total labor force is 1.4% and the 2021 Defense share of gross domestic product is 3.2%.

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What the money can and cannot pay for

Develop economic diversification studies to lessen local economic dependency on Department of Defense and/or military installation-related expenditures; prepare contingency plans for organizing a community in response to a possible base closure or realignment; and/or produce strategies and schematic plans for the potential civilian reuse of a military installation prior to closure or realignment decision. Funds provided under this program shall not be used to directly identify or assist a business, including a business expansion, in the relocation of a plant, facility, or operation from one Labor Market Area (LMA) to another if the relocation is likely to result in the loss of jobs in the LMA from which the relocation occurs. Funds shall not be used to directly or indirectly inform and/or influence deliberations under Public Law 101-510, as amended, or subsequent Base Closure and Realignment laws, of the Department of Defense (including any of its components). In considering military installations for closure or realignment, the Secretary of Defense may not take into account for any purpose any advance planning undertaken by an affected community with respect to the anticipated closure or realignment of a military installation.

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. A minimum of ten percent of the project's total proposed funding is to be comprised of non-Federal sources. Matching may be waived by the Director, Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation, in extreme circumstances.MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Deadlines do not apply

Award range and average, in the agency's words

$1,000,000

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: A project enables an entity of local government and its partners to coordinate the necessary adjustments to public services and infrastructure in anticipation of growth due to a military installation’s transition to a new weapons system.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Almost all of the money went to state and local governments.

By state

No state received $1 million or 10 awards from this program, so it has no state pages.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.