New wave of grants aimed at infrastructure security.

• Author: Pappalardo, Joe
• Position: SECURITY BEAT: Homeland Defense Brief - Brief Article

The Department of Homeland Security announced it would distribute $91.3 million in grant funding to secure areas surrounding critical infrastructure sites, including chemical facilities, dams and nuclear plants.

The Buffer Zone Protection Program provides funding through states to local jurisdictions to purchase equipment that will extend the zone of protection beyond the gates of these critical facilities.

Under the new grant program, states submitted equipment-purchasing plans to the Department at the end of April, for review by DHS' Office for Domestic Preparedness. Simultaneously to ODP's review, the Information Analysis and Infrastructure...