Department Of Public Safety

The Department Of Public Safety Executive Office Of Public Safety Division, doing business as Public Safety Executive Office, is a U.S. local government entity and child division of the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts that receives federal grants as a recipient across criminal justice, highway safety, and homeland security programs. The organization acts exclusively as a grant recipient rather than a federal contractor; it holds no federal contract vehicles and does not compete for or hold defense or civilian procurement work.

The Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS) administers federal grant funding across three core capability areas: highway safety program management, criminal justice data systems and sex offender registry modernization, and grant program administration for state and local public safety initiatives. Recent representative grant work includes a $6.392 million Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (CFDA 20.600, awarded October 1, 2025) supporting behavioral highway safety initiatives statewide; a $2.064 million Cooperative Agreement from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (CFDA 16.554, awarded July 1, 2026) for improving disposition matching in criminal history records and upgrading 70 live scan fingerprint devices; a $29.995 million Homeland Security Grant Program award from FEMA (CFDA 97.067, awarded October 1, 2025) to support terrorism prevention and emergency preparedness across Massachusetts; and a $450,522 Title II Formula Grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.540, awarded July 1, 2026) for juvenile justice system compliance and delinquency prevention.

Customer concentration tracks heavily to federal highway safety and criminal justice programs. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 84 percent of recent awards: the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration leads with 139 awards, followed by the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance (64 awards), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (46 awards), and subordinate DOJ OJP offices (44 awards). The combined potential value across all 381 awards over the past several years is $976.2 million, with the bulk of annual volume running 24–32 awards per year from 2022 through 2025.

The organization's grant footprint spans multiple federal grantor agencies and grant programs. The EOPSS receives formula grants across the National Priority Safety Programs portfolio (Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety, Section 405 Occupant Protection, Impaired Driving Countermeasures, Distracted Driving, Motorcyclist Safety, and Nonmotorized Safety grants under CFDA 20.616 and 20.600) from NHTSA; multiple criminal justice and victim services grants (Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Title II, Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners, Bureau of Justice Statistics programs, Violence Against Women Act STOP grants, and Project Safe Neighborhoods) from DOJ; and homeland security and emergency preparedness grants (Homeland Security Grant Program, State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program, and Nonprofit Security Grant Program under CFDAs 97.067, 97.137, and 97.008) from FEMA. Work is performed primarily in Boston, Massachusetts, with administrative oversight housed at the McCormack Building, 1 Ashburton Place. The organization operates as a pass-through grant recipient and sub-awards significant portions of federal funding to local law enforcement agencies, county sheriffs departments, municipal governments, victim service organizations, and correctional facilities across the Commonwealth.

Thirty-four awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and will face recompete or renewal. The Executive Office manages more than $279 million in state and federal grants through its Office of Grants and Research, which also houses the Massachusetts Statistical Analysis Center and handles grant administration, compliance monitoring, and sub-award management across multiple federal programs.