Kansas Highway Patrol

Kansas Highway Patrol, a state law enforcement agency and a child entity of the State of Kansas Office of Accounts and Reports, receives federal grants to conduct traffic enforcement operations, emergency management programs, and pass-through funding to nonprofit organizations and sub-recipients across Kansas. KHP acts as a grant recipient (58% of recent awards as prime recipient) and as a sub-recipient on grants administered by the Kansas Department of Transportation, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Adjutant General Department, and the Executive Office of the State of Kansas.

KHP's federal funding footprint is concentrated in transportation safety and homeland security grant programs. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) together account for 96% of recent awards across 105 funding actions. FMCSA has issued 53 awards funding KHP's "Troopers on Patrol for Safety" (TOPS) program, which delivers high-visibility traffic enforcement targeting commercial motor vehicle safety, speeding, distracted driving, and moving violations in high-crash areas and work zones across Kansas. Recent FMCSA awards include a $1.72 million project grant (December 2025 through September 2028) for continuation and expansion of TOPS operations, a $150,000 planning and top-level design project to establish a scalable framework for commercial motor vehicle safety and intelligent transportation systems alignment (completion September 2030), and a $1.307 million project grant (September 2024 through September 2026) focused on increased enforcement on rural roads to reduce fatal and injury crashes. NHTSA has issued 52 awards; representative project grants include a $1 million body-worn camera implementation program (October 2024 through September 2027, CFDA 16.835 from the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance) to deploy body-worn cameras to all sworn KHP personnel and a vehicle-enforcement project (September 2023 through June 2025) targeting non-commercial motor vehicle enforcement in collision hotspots.

FEMA represents the second major customer stream with 43 awards funding emergency management, homeland security, and nonprofit security initiatives. Recent FEMA awards include a $4.362 million formula grant (October 2025 through September 2026, CFDA 97.067) for homeland security grant programs covering emergency planning, workforce training, equipment, critical infrastructure protection, and cybersecurity; a $2.1 million project grant (September 2025 through August 2028, CFDA 97.008) for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which KHP administers as pass-through funding to eligible nonprofit organizations in Kansas; a $1.333 million project grant (September 2024 through August 2027, CFDA 97.052) for emergency operations center construction and renovation in Topeka; and a $3.278 million project grant (September 2024 through August 2027, CFDA 97.008) for nonprofit security enhancements. The Federal Highway Administration has issued 10 awards supporting traffic safety initiatives.

KHP's sub-award activity reflects pass-through administration and collaborative funding arrangements. The Kansas Department of Transportation serves as the prime grantee on approximately 40 sub-awards to KHP dating from 2022 to March 2026, funding overtime enforcement, special traffic enforcement programs, motorist assistance, equipment rollovers training, crash reconstruction instruction, and work-zone safety public awareness campaigns. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has issued sub-awards to KHP for high-intensity drug trafficking area interdiction support and joint federal investigations. The Kansas Adjutant General Department funded temporary emergency repairs to KHP facilities in 2022.

Activity has grown substantially over the past five years, from 7 awards in 2022 to 34 in 2025, with 10 awards recorded through March 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all 165 awards total $252.6 million. Only 3 awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure in the source data window. KHP operates across Kansas as a state agency; work is performed statewide with administrative headquarters in Topeka.