Department Of Military Nebraska

The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, a division of the Department of Military Nebraska, is a U.S. state government entity that serves as the prime recipient of federal disaster-response, hazard-mitigation, cybersecurity, and emergency-preparedness grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, administering funds as a pass-through entity to state, local, tribal, and nonprofit sub-recipients across Nebraska. NEMA holds no federal contracts and does not compete for commercial work; it functions exclusively as a grant recipient under federal emergency-management programs (CFDA 97.036, 97.039, 97.042, 97.052, 97.067, 97.137, and 97.008).

NEMA's portfolio centers on FEMA pass-through funding for disaster response, recovery, mitigation, and preparedness. Recent representative awards include a $162.653 million Disaster Grants - Public Assistance award on September 9, 2025 (CFDA 97.036), distributed to Nebraska public power districts, municipalities, school districts, and county government entities for debris removal, emergency protective measures, and infrastructure restoration following presidentially declared disasters; a $27.337 million PA award on January 26, 2026 supporting power line, transmission system, utility, and facility repairs across multiple Nebraska counties and cities; a $7.029 million Emergency Management Performance Grants award on October 1, 2025 (CFDA 97.042) for state and local emergency-management capability enhancement; a $5.555 million State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program award on December 13, 2024 (CFDA 97.137) for four-year cybersecurity risk reduction and critical-infrastructure protection; and a $4.362 million Homeland Security Grant Program award on October 1, 2025 (CFDA 97.067) distributed to counties, municipalities, tribal governments, and nonprofits for terrorism prevention and emergency preparedness. NEMA also administers Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (CFDA 97.039) awards supporting risk-reduction infrastructure, emergency operations center construction and renovation (CFDA 97.052), nonprofit security hardening (CFDA 97.008), and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grants for community hazard mitigation and resilience projects.

NEMA accounts for 95 percent of its 201 tracked awards as prime recipient (190 awards) and 5 percent as sub-recipient (11 awards). The Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards and the Federal Emergency Management Agency collectively represent 182 of 201 awards (99% of award count), with smaller volume from the Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (15 awards). Combined obligated dollars across the portfolio total $3.27 billion, reflecting large-scale disaster recovery and federal-pass-through activity. Administrative overhead and management-cost sub-awards to the Department of Military Nebraska are dated January and May 2025. Four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating modest recompete exposure relative to the portfolio's scale. Place of performance is Lincoln, Nebraska, with sub-recipient work distributed across Nebraska's counties, municipalities, public power districts, natural resources districts, tribal governments, and eligible nonprofits.