FY25 Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) Invitational

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Opportunity number
O-COPS-2025-172409
Agency
Applications due
Award size
Up to $10,800,000

Opportunity facts

Assistance listings
Funding instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Category
  • Law, Justice and Legal Services
Eligible applicants
  • Other
Points of contact
Full announcement

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About this opportunity

Written by GovTribe AI ·

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is seeking applications for the FY25 Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) Invitational program through a cooperative agreement. The primary objective of this grant is to increase public and law enforcement safety by providing comprehensive training for first responders, including law enforcement, fire, EMS, dispatchers, medical personnel, facility security, and emergency management professionals. The program aims to advance the 2016 Protecting Our Lives by Initiating COPS Expansion (POLICE) Act by offering scenario-based, integrated response courses designed to counter active shooter threats and terrorism. Applicants must be prepared to have primary responsibility for administering funding, managing the entire project, and monitoring compliance, with the option to include subrecipients. The application period is open from May 16, 2025, to June 24, 2025, with a focus on enhancing integrated emergency response capabilities.

While specific award values are not detailed in the grant opportunity, the funding will be distributed through a cooperative agreement mechanism. The program prioritizes collaborative approaches, welcoming applications from multiple entities with one lead applicant. All future awards will align with Executive Orders and Attorney General memoranda, emphasizing law and order priorities such as increased law enforcement hiring, collaboration with federal task forces, crime prevention, and enhanced security measures. The grant's implementation will be subject to the availability of appropriated funds and potential additional legal requirements. Performance will likely involve nationwide training programs and integrated response skill development for various emergency and law enforcement professionals.

Synopsis

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office, https://cops.usdoj.gov is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding for The COPS Office pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding for the FY25 Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) Invitational program. Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) funds are used to increase public and law enforcement safety nationwide by training first responders-including law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services (EMS), dispatchers, medical personnel, facility security, emergency management, and any other professionals who may reasonably be key to a successful integrated response-to handle an active shooter or other violent threat. Training provided under the PASS program will advance the goal of the 2016 Protecting Our Lives by Initiating COPS Expansion (POLICE) Act in offering scenario-based, integrated response courses designed to counter active shooter threats or acts of terrorism against individuals or facilities. The COPS Office welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any other entities carrying out the federal award must be identified as proposed subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the awards, including administering the funding, managing the entire project and monitoring compliance. The terms and conditions of the federal award are also applicable to subrecipients. Please note the distinction between a subaward that creates a financial assistance relationship to carry out a portion of the federal award and a contract that creates a procurement relationship for the purchase of goods and services needed under the federal award. To assist in making subrecipient and contractor determinations, please refer to the guidance in 2 C.F.R. § 200.331. All future awards will comply with Executive Orders and Attorney General memoranda to advance the Administration's priority of reestablishing law and order to include the increased hiring and retention of state and local sworn officers, state and local law enforcement collaboration with federal task forces, cracking down on the open use of illegal drugs, interrupting the distribution of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs, preventing crime, promoting nuisance abatement, countering human trafficking and child smuggling, and enhanced immigration enforcement and border security. All awards are subject to the availability of appropriated funds and any modifications or additional requirements that may be imposed by law. As community policing is common sense policing, throughout the NOFO materials, the terms 'community policing' and 'common sense policing' are used interchangeably, unless otherwise specified.

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