Urban Area Security Initiative Federal Fiscal Year 2026 – Regular Projects (UASI-R) - AMENDED
Program owner: Texas Office of the Governor, Public Safety Office (PSO)
Summary: Texas-administered federal UASI funding for terrorism-preparedness capabilities in designated high-risk urban areas. Qualifying government and other applicants may request support for homeland security task forces, fusion centers, intelligence sharing, surveillance and communications technology, interoperable communications, cybersecurity, and specified corrections and immigration-enforcement activities.
The Texas Public Safety Office is soliciting projects that build or sustain terrorism-prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery capabilities in federally designated high-risk urban areas. Projects must align with approved urban-area investments, THIRA capability targets, and gaps identified through the Stakeholder Preparedness Review.
The program expressly supports material law-enforcement activities, including multi-agency homeland security task forces, fusion-center integration, intelligence analysis, surveillance and communications equipment, interdiction coordination, suspicious-activity reporting, corrections-based 287(g) screening, and specified immigration-enforcement capabilities. Applicants must coordinate with and obtain approval from their applicable Urban Area Working Group before applying through Texas eGrants.
Who is eligible?
Applicant types: State agencies; regional councils of governments; units of local government; nonprofit organizations; universities and colleges.
Applicants must be located within a designated high-risk Urban Area receiving a FY 2026 federal UASI allocation and must serve an Urban Area operational role or partner on its plans, training, and exercises. The source identifies the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio areas as the most recent Texas areas but does not confirm them as the final FY 2026 designations. Eligible entity classes are state agencies, regional councils of governments, units of local government, nonprofit organizations, and universities or colleges. The source expressly contemplates applicants operating law-enforcement agencies and projects involving law enforcement and corrections.
What can the funding be used for?
Projects must support an approved urban-area investment and terrorism-related core capabilities. Source-supported examples include protection of soft targets and crowded places; security planning, training, exercises, equipment, vulnerability assessments, screening, detection, access control, and physical protective measures; election security; cybersecurity assessments, plans, training, software, hardware, monitoring, and response; homeland security task forces and fusion centers; surveillance, communications, and data-analysis technology; intelligence analysis and suspicious-activity reporting; joint operations and interdiction exercises; interoperable communications; 287(g) corrections screening and enforcement staffing or overtime; law-enforcement training concerning immigration law and 287(g) procedures; information sharing and exercises with ICE; screening and communications technology; secure processing or interview spaces; and other capabilities with a clear terrorism-preparedness nexus.
Restrictions
Inherently religious activities; lobbying; compensation for elected or appointed government officials; general-use agency vehicles or equipment without a clear terrorism-prevention, interdiction, or disruption nexus, including routine-patrol mobile data terminals, body cameras, in-car video systems, and radar units; general firefighting equipment or uniforms; weapons, ammunition, tasers, weaponized vehicles, and explosives, except that exceptions may be granted for explosives used in bomb-squad training; weapon accessories; amusement, recreational, or sporting-event admission; promotional items or gifts; food or refreshments except eligible travel per diem or preapproved working events; individual membership dues; expenses or services readily available at no cost; supplanting; fundraising; legal services for adult offenders; non-P25-compliant radio equipment; riot equipment; and other costs prohibited by applicable law or the Guide to Grants.
How to apply
Contact the applicable Urban Area Working Group and comply with its workshops, workgroups, prioritization procedures, and other requirements. After UAWG approval, access the Texas PSO eGrants system, complete the application, upload all required certifications and attachments, and submit and certify the application by April 30, 2026, at 5:00 PM CST as stated by the source. PSO screens applications, UAWG committees prioritize eligible applications, and the PSO executive director makes final funding decisions.
Required materials
As applicable, applicants must submit a fully executed governing-body resolution for nonprofit corporations, local units of government, and other political subdivisions; a CEO/Law Enforcement Certifications and Assurances Form for each local unit of government and institution of higher education operating a law-enforcement agency; a CEO/NGO Certifications and Assurances Form for each nonprofit applicant; and a Cybersecurity Training Certification for government entities subject to the cited Texas requirements. Applicants must also be registered in SAM and have a Unique Entity ID. Other eligibility and program-specific documentation may be required through eGrants.
Program contact
eGrants Help Desk
[email protected]
512-463-1919
Official sources
- Texas Office of the Governor eGrants checked September 16, 2026
Grant details can change. Confirm all requirements on the official source before applying.