Strengthening Public Safety Through Preparedness
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Bay Area 
Urban Areas Security Initiative

The Bay Area UASI improves regional capacity to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist incidents and catastrophic events. We utilize federal homeland security grant funds to analyze regional risks; identify capability gaps; and build a secure, prepared, and resilient region.

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Key Programs

The Bay Area UASI manages a wide array of programs that represent the top public safety and security priorities of the region.  These multi-disciplinary programs include local, regional, state, and federal subject matter experts working together to achieve Homeland Security goals and objectives. 

Community Resilience

Launched in 2019, the Community Resilience Program strengthens whole-community preparedness by delivering tailored training and tools to nonprofit, faith-based, and community-based organizations ac

Enhancing Cyber Resilience

Enhancing cybersecurity is a critical priority for the Bay Area because the region’s dense concentration of interconnected infrastructure—spanning public safety communications, transit systems, uti

Preventing Targeted Violence

Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a range of violent extremist ideologies, of both domestic and foreign origin, continue to pose a persistent terrorism-related threat facin

Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)

Building a More Resilient Bay Area Together

Since 2019, the Bay Area UASI has proudly received funding through FEMA’s Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPG

Regional Training and Exercise (BATEP)

Training and exercises are critical means to attain, practice, validate, and improve emergency response and preparedness capabilities.

Securing the Cities (STC)

PURPOSE & OVERVIEW

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Bay Area UASI Grants

The Bay Area UASI administers projects on behalf of four geographical hubs of counties and three core cities, totaling 14 jurisdictions.  These projects are funded by three federal grants funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.  All grant-funded projects are applied for and implemented based on priorities of the sub-recipients and their residents. 

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Resources

The Bay Area UASI develops tools, templates, and documents for use by our sub-recipient jurisdictions and their stakeholders. These are compiled in a searchable resource library for ease of access. 

Please note that access to specific resources may be restricted for security purposes.