Federal grant programs / Department of Homeland Security

State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Security Operations Center/Information Sharing and Analysis Center (97.123)

Also known as SLTT SOC / ISAC Program

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$134 million
• Grant awards2
• Typical award$67.1 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$0
• Size rank721 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements

Key findings

• It is the 721st largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• Awards went to recipients in 1 states and territories.

What the program funds

The mission of CISA is to lead the national effort to understand and manage cyber and physical risk to our critical infrastructure. In carrying out this mission, Section 2209 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 assigns the CISA Director the responsibilities to, among other things, provide operational technical assistance, risk management support, and incident response capabilities to non-federal entities with respect to cyber threat indicators, defensive measures, cybersecurity risks, and incidents; provide information and recommendations on security and resilience measures to non-federal entities; and, through an entity that has entered an agreement with CISA, collaborate with state and local governments on cybersecurity risks and incidents. Section 102 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 authorizes the Secretary to make cooperative agreements in carrying out these responsibilities. Pursuant to these authorities, CISA carries out the SLTT SOC | ISAC Program to provide cybersecurity services to SLTT governments and their election infrastructure to assist them in improving their overall cybersecurity resilience and readiness. Under the SLTT SOC | ISAC Program, CISA provides financial assistance through a cooperative agreement to for-profit and/or non-profit organizations to operate a security operations center | information sharing and analysis center to collaborate with SLTT governments and their election infrastructure on cybersecurity threats and incidents with the goal of strengthening the SLTT governments’ cybersecurity readiness and resilience. The objectives of financial assistance under the SLTT SOC | ISAC Program are to: (1) build and improve the capacity for cyber threat information sharing among SLTTs and their elections infrastructure and the federal government; (2) support SLTTs and their elections infrastructure to build and improved the capability to respond to that cyber threat information; and (3) provide no-cost cyber managed services to SLTTs and their elections infrastructure. The SLTT SOC | ISAC Program supports Goal 3: Secure Cyberspace and Critical Infrastructure under the 2020-2024 Department of Homeland Security Strategic Plan and Goal 1 – Cyber Defense, Goal 2 – Risk Reduction and Resilience, and Goal 3 – Operational Collaboration of the CISA Strategic Plan 2023-2025.

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

The entities eligible for financial assistance under the SLTT SOC | ISAC Program include for-profit and non-profit organizations.

What the money can and cannot pay for

The SLTT SOC | ISAC Program provides financial assistance for a for-profit or non-profit entity to operate a SOC ISAC that will provide various cybersecurity services to SLTT governments and their election infrastructure to share cyber threat information and enable response to that cyber threat information. The Notice of Funding Opportunity will typically identify a detailed scope of work across four functional program areas, which are: program management; cybersecurity operations center services; cybersecurity operations center architecture, engineering, operations, and maintenance; and cybersecurity communications and coordination. The eligible activities under these four areas will include, among other things, sharing cyber situational awareness with SLTT governments concerning threats, incidents, vulnerabilities, best practices, and mitigation strategies; providing cyber managed services to SLTT governments (such as EDR, threat monitoring and analysis, and incident assessment and management); providing technical assistance to SLTT governments; and performing other activities to support SLTT governments prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against cybersecurity threats and incidents.

Continue reading on SAM.gov

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. The SLTT SOC | ISAC Program is a discretionary financial assistance program and there is no statutory or regulatory formula for allocating funds. CISA will provide federal funding of up to 70 percent of total project costs in the approved budget for a federal award. A recipient must contribute the remaining 30 percent of total project costs and can meet this non-federal cost share requirement through cash and/or in-kind contributions. CISA administers the cost-sharing requirements in accordance with 2 C.F.R. § 200.306. There are no maintenance of effort requirements and no non-supplanting requirements.MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

The Notice of Funding Opportunity will detail the open application period and deadline for applying for a cooperative agreement under the SLTT SOC | ISAC Program. For planning purposes, the open application period is generally 61 days and extends from on or about May 1 to July 2. As it relates to requesting funding for additional budget periods under an existing federal award, CISA will notify an incumbent recipient as to the availability of continuation funding for an additional budget period on or around May 1 and, if making such funding available, provide the recipient with 30 days to submit its continuation funding request.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Range and Average of Financial Assistance CISA/DHS competitively awarded a cooperative agreement to a nonprofit entity in FY 2023 with a 2-year period of performance comprised of two 1-year budget periods. The funding awarded for the initial 1-year budget period was $43,003,000 and projected continuation funding to be awarded for the second 1-year budget period is $27,014,000. Therefore, the range of financial assistance per 1-year budget period is $43,003,000 to $27,014,000 and the average is $35,008,500.

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2023: CISA awarded a cooperative agreement in FY 2023 to a nonprofit organization to operate a security operations center | information sharing and analysis center to provide various cybersecurity services to SLTT governments and their election infrastructure. These services have included providing SLTT governments cyber situational awareness concerning threats, incidents, vulnerabilities, best practices, and mitigation strategies; providing SLTT governments cyber managed services (such as endpoint detection and response (“EDR”)); providing technical assistance; and performing other activities to support SLTT governments prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against cybersecurity threats and incidents.

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

Nonprofits received 52% of the money.

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

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