97.123: State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Security Operations Center/Information Sharing and Analysis Center

97.123

Active

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) [DHS]

Sept. 6, 2022

Sept. 6, 2022

This program addresses the DHS mission to Safeguard and Secure Cyberspace, as defined in the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, through efforts to support the state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) governments and election infrastructure to keep pace in sharing cyber threat information and responding to cyber risk in as close to real-time as possible. This program leverages the strength of market technology forces to spur innovative strategies within a Security and Operations Center (SOC) to enable a cyber-relevant Infrastructure Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) operating model that is consistent with section 2209 of the Homeland Security Act, Executive Order 13636, Executive Order 13691, and Presidential Decision Directive-63 (PDD-63). Specifically, section 2209(d)(E) requires the composition of the national cybersecurity and communications center to include “an entity that collaborates with State and local governments on cybersecurity risks and incidents.” This program convenes state-of-the-art SOC technology and their cyber analytic expertise with SLTT cyber coordinators, cyber and fusion center coordinators, and critical SLTT sectors (to include elections, communications, energy etc.) to evolve cyber capabilities from mission control to community collaboration models that face current threats in the digital battlefront. Services will allow SLTT stakeholders to consume and exchange awareness of threats via technologies that serve to derive a more accurate and timelier picture of prioritized cyber defense actions. All the while, ensuring coordination is sustained with federal partners to defend forward and prevent or thwart malicious cyberspace actors and activities. Thus, through these efforts, making improvements in technical cyber expertise, providing for a more efficient response and recovery time of systems during attack and developing resilience capabilities for our nation’s SLTT government sector. Objectives Provide a 24x7 SOC| ISAC that fosters a platform for generating and disseminating cyber threat information and coordinating cybersecurity expertise upon which SLTT governments can rely when making decisions that enable adequate preventative and response measures to cyber threat. By integrating the SLTT cyber ecosystem, and empowering insight and cyber situational awareness from across the SLTT trusted circle, the community will mutually benefit from the innovative measures that protect and improve defenses. Priorities: Successful execution will focus customer relationships on enhanced models for threat intelligence exchange. New technologies in data analytic correlation, collaborative threat intelligence and orchestration have created opportunities for faster and actionable threat intelligence exchange. The priority in focus is to advance SLTT cybersecurity risk management and to help build a healthy and resilient SLTT cyber ecosystem via automated collective community action.

Z - Salaries and Expenses

This funding opportunity is awarded through an open competitive process. Specific information on applicant eligibility is identified in the funding opportunity announcement.

State Governments, local government, territorial governments, tribal governments and territories

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