Coastal West Africa Border Security Exercise | DFOP0013992

Opportunity Information: Apply for DFOP0013992

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) is offering a discretionary funding opportunity titled "Coastal West Africa Border Security Exercise" (Funding Opportunity Number DFOP0013992). The award will be made as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the recipient will carry out the project with substantial involvement from the U.S. government during planning and implementation. The program sits within the Law, Justice, and Legal Services activity category under CFDA 19.701, and it is structured as an open competition.

The core purpose of the grant is to select an organization to host and run a one-week border security exercise in Coastal West Africa. While the notice does not spell out every design element of the exercise, the intent is clearly operational and capacity-building: bringing relevant participants together in a structured, time-bound exercise format to strengthen border security coordination, practices, and readiness in the Coastal West Africa region. In practice, a project like this usually involves scenario-based activities, coordination drills, and facilitated sessions that test or improve how different border and security stakeholders communicate, share information, and respond to cross-border threats.

A wide range of applicants are eligible. Eligible entities include not-for-profit organizations (including think tanks and civil society or non-governmental organizations), public and private educational institutions, for-profit organizations (only where permitted by the relevant appropriation), and public international organizations as well as governmental institutions. This broad eligibility suggests CT is open to implementers with different strengths, such as convening power, training and exercise design expertise, regional networks, or operational experience supporting security-sector programming.

Key timing and funding details are straightforward. The original application closing date was June 17, 2024, and the posted award ceiling is $1,480,019, indicating the maximum amount available under this opportunity. The listing shows "Expected Awards: 0," which can appear in some postings even when an award is anticipated, and may reflect that the number of awards was not specified in the source data rather than an intent to make no awards. The opportunity was created on April 18, 2024.

In summary, this is a State Department CT cooperative agreement competition to fund and jointly oversee the delivery of a one-week border security exercise in Coastal West Africa, with eligibility spanning nonprofits, universities, certain for-profits, and international or governmental organizations, and with up to $1.48 million available under the award ceiling.

• The Bureau of Counterterrorism in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Coastal West Africa Border Security Exercise" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.701.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-04-18.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-17. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,480,019.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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