Kansas Adjutant General Department

Kansas Adjutant General Department, doing business as Comptroller's Office, is a state government entity that administers federal grants to support emergency management, disaster recovery, and National Guard operations in Kansas as a prime recipient. The department operates under the parent State of Kansas Office of Accounts and Reports and is not a competitive federal contractor; it receives grants directly from federal agencies and passes funding through to local governments, nonprofits, and sub-recipients across Kansas.

The department's federal grant portfolio centers on disaster assistance, emergency preparedness, and National Guard facility operations. Representative awards include a $4.329 million Disaster Grants-Public Assistance (CFDA 97.036) grant from FEMA (February 2026) for disaster recovery and property repairs, an $8.106 million Emergency Management Performance Grants award (CFDA 97.042, October 2025) to enhance state and local preparedness across Kansas counties and municipalities, a $26.319 million Army National Guard Facilities Program Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 12.401, October 2025) for facility operations and maintenance, and a $3.227 million Air National Guard STARBASE Program award (CFDA 12.020, October 2025) delivering STEM mentoring to underserved middle and high school students. The department also administers a $287.5 thousand Army National Guard Electronic Security System cooperative agreement and a $652.061 thousand Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness grant (CFDA 97.046, October 2025) for emergency response planning and hazmat responder training.

Federal agency concentration is dominated by military and emergency management funders. The Department of the Army National Guard accounts for 127 of 452 total awards, with the Department of the Army Kansas Army National Guard at 108 awards; FEMA Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards hold 76 awards, and the broader Federal Emergency Management Agency (69 awards) and Department of the Air Force Air National Guard (25 awards) round out the top five by count. These five funders account for 90% of all awards. The combined obligated value across all awards stands at $5.44 billion, though current-year potential value carries minimal projection (the source reports "$7 thousand combined potential value," a data anomaly typical of state entity reporting where most obligated amounts are committed but not forward-projectile).

Award activity has grown incrementally — from 22 awards in 2022 to a peak of 34 in 2024 — then moderated to 21 in 2025 and 8 in 2026 (year to date through late April). Eight awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating renewal and recompete opportunity for continuation of National Guard O&M programs and disaster assistance initiatives.

The department operates primarily as a pass-through entity. It receives federal disaster recovery grants (Disaster Grants-Public Assistance, Public Assistance for pandemic recovery, Hazard Mitigation Assistance, Flood Mitigation Assistance, Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) and issues sub-awards to Kansas county governments, city finance divisions, electric cooperatives, school districts, and sheriff's offices for facility repair, property restoration, emergency sheltering, and mitigation planning. Named sub-recipients include Sunflower Electric Power Corp, Southern Pioneer Electric, Reno County Public Works, County of Bourbon, City of Ottawa, Tisdale Township, and the Hiawatha National Guard Armory. On the National Guard side, the department administers congressionally directed Cooperative Agreements (non-discretionary allocations) spanning facilities operations, environmental management, security guard services, fire protection, command-and-control communications, training, and antiterrorism coordination at Forbes Field and McConnell Air Force Base and Army National Guard installations across Kansas. Twelve sub-awards (3% of the portfolio) route through external primes, primarily for State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) pass-through work and specialized mitigation projects.

Work is performed in Topeka, Kansas, with administrative oversight and sub-award issuance extending statewide across Kansas counties and municipalities.