
The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced final allocations of $345 million for its fiscal year 2018 competitive preparedness grant programs, raising total grant funding for the year to more than $1.6 billion for states, localities, tribal and territorial governments, non-profit agencies and the private sector.The biggest bucket of grant funding is the Homeland Security Grant Program, which has more than $1 billion to divvy up to the highest risk areas of the country. For this program, DHS will…