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Federal Emergency Management Agency: Grants and Training Office Technical Assistance Program

The Program provides direct planning and technical expertise to state and local jurisdictions to improve their ability to prevent, respond to, and recover from threats or acts of terrorism involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive materials.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program provides a wide range of expertise to state and local grantees to assist in developing and implementing homeland security programs. However, in responding to shifting priorities, the program has until recently lacked clear long-term goals for improving grantees' planning and management capabilities.
  • The program has broadened its range of services provided to keep pace with the range of capabilities eligible for for DHS grant funding. Some of these services are similar to technical assistance services provided by other Federal agencies, and do not reflect an clear "core competency" of the Office of Grants and Training.
  • The program's funding level is not transparent, with actual expenditures exceeding estimates in the President's Budget and Congressional appropriations. Relation of actual funding levels to goals and results is unclear.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing long-term performance measures focused on key outcomes, especially the improvement of grant management and homeland security planning.
  • Clarifying the most critical state and local problems that the program intends to address.
  • Developing an FY06 spending plan and FY07 requst that more clearly identify program resources, with linkages to performance.

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