U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs

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Department of Homeland Security
Port Security Grant Program Technologies for
Critical Incident Preparedness Conference Chicago,
IL October 30,2008
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Overview of FEMA Grant Programs

• FEMA is responsible for managing a number of
  grant programs
• Homeland Security Grant Programs (HSGP)
• State Homeland Security Program
• Urban Areas Security Initiative Program
• Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program
• Metropolitan Medical Response System
• Citizen Corps Program
• Critical Infrastructure Security Programs (CISP)
• Buffer Zone Protection Program
• Intercity Bus Security Grant Program
• Port Security Grant Program (PSGP)
• Transit Security Grant Program
• Trucking Security Program

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Critical Infrastructure Security Programs (CISP)

• CISP supports specific activities to protect
  critical infrastructure, such as ports, mass
  transit, highways, and rail transportation
• DHS continues to work with regional transit
  agencies, port authorities, and the owners and
  operators of critical infrastructure to align
  their infrastructure protection efforts with
  national-level critical infrastructure protection
  priorities and to reinforce activities funded
  through other homeland security grant programs
  and federal agencies
• CISP grants fund a range of preparedness
  activities, including strengthening
  infrastructure against explosive attacks,
  preparedness planning, equipment purchase,
  training, exercises, and security management and
  administration costs
• As in prior years, GPD will collaborate with TSA
  and USCG on the administration and oversight of
  transportation programs

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Port Security Grant Program (PSGP)

• The purpose of the FY 2009 PSGP is to create a
  sustainable, risk-based effort to protect
  critical port infrastructure from terrorism,
  particularly attacks using explosives and
  non-conventional threats that could cause major
  disruption to commerce
• Program management relies on close coordination
  between FEMA, the United States Coast Guard,
  Transportation Security Administration and the
  Department of Transportations Maritime
  Administration (MARAD) and Federal Transit
  Administration (FTA)

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PSGP Priorities

• Enhancing Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)
• MDA is the critical enabler that allows leaders
  at all levels to make effective decisions and act
  early against threats to the security of the
  Nations seaports. In support of the National
  Strategy for Maritime Security, port areas should
  seek to enhance their MDA through projects that
  address knowledge capabilities within the
  maritime domain. This could include access
  control/standardized credentialing, command and
  control, communications, and enhanced
  intelligence sharing and analysis.
• Enhancing Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and
  Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) prevention,
  protection, response and recovery capabilities
• Port areas should seek to enhance their
  capabilities to prevent, detect, respond to and
  recover from terrorist attacks employing IEDs,
  WMDs and other non-conventional weapons. Of
  particular concern in the port environment are
  attacks that employ IEDs delivered via small
  craft (similar to the attack on the USS Cole), by
  underwater swimmers (such as underwater mines) or
  on ferries (both passenger and vehicle).

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PSGP Priorities

• Training and Exercises
• Port areas should first seek to ensure that
  appropriate capabilities exist among staff and
  managers, and then regularly test these
  capabilities through emergency drills and
  exercises. Emergency drills and exercises (such
  as those in the Transportation Security
  Administration (TSA) Port Security Exercise
  Training Program) test operational protocols that
  would be implemented in the event of a terrorist
  attack. The efforts include live situational
  exercises involving various threat and disaster
  scenarios, table-top exercises, and methods for
  implementing lessons learned.
• Efforts supporting implementation of the
  Transportation Worker Identification Credential
  (TWIC)
• The TWIC is a congressionally mandated security
  program through which DHS will conduct
  appropriate background investigations and issue
  biometrically enabled and secure identification
  cards for individuals requiring unescorted access
  to U.S. port facilities. Regulations outlining
  the initial phase of this program (card issuance)
  were issued by TSA in cooperation with the Coast
  Guard in 72 Federal Register 3492 (January 25,
  2007).

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Ferry System Priorities

• Development and enhancement of capabilities to
  prevent, detect, respond to and recover from
  terrorist attacks employing improvised explosive
  devices (IEDs) and vehicle borne improvised
  explosive devices (VBIEDs)
• Mitigation of other high consequence risks
  identified through individual ferry system risk
  assessments
• Use of canine teams at the embarkation and exit
  points of a system, as well as during passage
• Innovative utilization of mobile technology for
  prevention and detection of explosives or other
  threats and hazards

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Ferry System Priorities

• Development and enhancement of physical and
  perimeter security capabilities to deny access
  around maintenance facilities, dry docks, and
  piers
• Development of emergency preparedness and
  response capabilities in the event of a ferry
  being used as a weapon to inflict damage on
  critical infrastructure
• Development and enhancement of training and
  awareness among ferry operators and employees
• Public awareness training

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PSGP Funded Technology Initiatives

• Interoperable Communications Products Ability
  to Connect Multiple Radio Bands, Cellular, iDEN
  (Nextel), Land-Line Communications
• 700Mhz and 800Mhz Communications
• Mobile Command Centers with Helicopter Downlinks
• Data Analysis Software for Fusion/Intelligence
  Centers
• Enhanced Side Scan Sonar Arrays
• 5-Port Consortium in Louisiana Utilizing a
  Floating Barge as a Mobile Command Center and
  Training Platform
• Transportation Worker Identification Credential
  (TWIC) Initiative with TSA

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Proposed Changes for FY 2009

• Expanded Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  Priority
• Priority expanded to include enhancing Weapons
  of Mass Destruction (WMD) and other
  non-conventional weapons capabilities
• Revised Cost Sharing Requirement
• Cost sharing requirement can be met by a cash or
  an in-kind match (excluding construction
  activities for which the non-Federal share must
  be a cash match)
• Construction
• Some types of construction and renovation
  projects allowable for funding
• Explosive Detection Canine Team Operational
  Packages (OPacks) OPacks available for funding to
  eligible Group I and Group II port areas and
  ferry systems

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Eligibility

• The SAFE Port Act states that all entities
  covered by an AMSP may submit an application for
  consideration of funding
• Congress has specifically directed DHS to apply
  these funds to the highest risk ports
• In support of this, 147 critical ports
  representing approximately 95 percent of the
  foreign waterborne commerce of the United States,
  have been identified and ranked within 3 groups
• Based upon USCG recommendations, these ports are
  aggregated into 91 discreet port funding areas
• All Other Port Areas not located within Groups
  I-III and covered by an AMSP are also eligible to
  apply
• Under a fifth group, eligible ferry systems may
  also apply for funding

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Eligibility

• Entities specifically encouraged to apply
• Owners or operators of federally regulated
  terminals, facilities, U.S. inspected passenger
  vessels or ferries as defined in the Maritime
  Transportation Security Act (MTSA) and Title 33
  of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts
  101, 104, 105, and 106
• Port authorities or other State and local
  agencies that are required to provide security
  services to eligible Ferry System applicants
  (MTSA regulated facilities) pursuant to an AMSP
  or a Facility or Vessel Security Plan
• Consortia composed of local river organizations,
  ports and terminal associations, and other local
  stakeholder groups representing federally
  regulated ports, terminals, U.S. inspected
  passenger vessels or ferries that are required to
  provide security services to federally regulated
  facilities in accordance with an AMSP or a
  Facility or Vessel Security Plan
• Group I and II Fiduciary Agents (including newly
  identified Group II port areas who choose to
  begin the FA process)
• Eligible ferry systems

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Available Funding

• Each Group I and Group II port area has been
  designated a specific amount of money based upon
  the FY 2009 risk analysis
• Group III, All Other Port Areas and Ferry Systems
  compete for the funding identified in their
  corresponding Group

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Port Wide Risk Management

• During 2009, DHS will continue its effort to
  encourage and help coordinate port security
  planning efforts, such as the Area Maritime
  Security Plans (AMSP), with complementary
  initiatives underway at the State and Urban Area
  levels
• Implementing the National Infrastructure
  Protection Plan (NIPP) Risk Management Strategy
  is a fundamental shift of the PSGP

Old Focus
New Focus
Port-Wide Risk Management approach that
compliments urban area and state efforts
Security of individual facilities security within
ports
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Port Wide Risk Management

• Program will build on successes of previous years
  by continuing to encourage port-wide
  partnerships, regional management of risk, and
  business continuity
• Group I and Group II port areas are in the
  process of developing Port-Wide Risk
  Management/Mitigation and Business
  Continuity/Resumption of Trade plans that address
  the gaps in authorities, capabilities,
  capacities, competencies, and partnerships in
  these ports and identify their prioritized
  projects for the next five years
• FY 2009 PSGP will continue to fund those projects
  identified in the plan
• This strategy will focus the security needs of
  port stakeholders and will provide ports with
  investment justifications for Federal dollars
• Adoption of a deliberate risk management planning
  process, consistent with that employed in the
  UASI and State programs, is also a key focus of
  the SAFE Port Act (Public Law 109-347) 

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Port Wide Risk Management Deliverables
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Port Wide Risk Management Deliverables

• Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
• 2 pages in length
• 2 part focus
• 1. Risk Management/Mitigation
• 2. Business Operations/Resumption of Trade
• Primary elements
• Roles and responsibilities of key subcommittee
  members
• Relationship of FA and AMSC
• How plan will be developed (in house/contract
  support)
• Timeline for developing and implementing plan

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Port Wide Risk Management Deliverables

• The Plan
• Complements Area Maritime Security Plans, not
  meant to replace them
• Provides a 5-year investment strategy and
  establishes a forward-looking risk management
  approach for non-federal segments of the port
  community
• Identifies port wide gaps in security,
  authorities, capabilities, capacities,
  competences and partnerships across the security
  continuum of awareness, prevention, protection,
  response and recovery
• Port specific risk based upon MSRAM results and
  Area Maritime Security preparedness activities
• Links to other Federal plans (National Strategy
  for Maritime Security, National Infrastructure
  Protection Plan, Maritime Incident Response Plan)
• No more than 20 of the total award amount may be
  used in the development of the Plan (no
  non-federal cost share requirement for this
  portion)

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Port Wide Risk Management Deliverables

• Investment Justifications (IJs)
• i.e. Projects (based on Final Plan)
• Not required from the FA until Final Plan has
  been approved
• Remaining funds will used to implement
  prioritized projects that provide the greatest
  risk reduction benefit for the port area as a
  whole, and which support the developed plan
• Non-federal cost share requirement is 25 percent
  of the total project cost. Because the FA
  represents and serves on behalf of the AMSC, a
  public sector entity, the public cost share
  requirement (25) is applicable

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Fiduciary Agent Requirement

• For the past two rounds of funding, each Group I
  and Group II port area was required to select a
  single entity to act as the Fiduciary Agent (FA)
  for that port area
• The FA serves as the principal point of contact
  with FEMA for application, management and
  administration of the PSGP award
• Responsible for ensuring that all sub-recipients
  are compliant with the terms and conditions of
  the award
• Not the sole decision maker as to the use of
  these funds, works in conjunction with the
  Captain of the Port (COTP) and AMSC

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QuestionsAlexander R. Mrazik Jr.Section
ChiefPort Security Grant Program202-786-9732ale
xander.mrazik_at_dhs.gov