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Awards/PROJECT GRANT (B)

$41,672,398

Department of Homeland Security·Federal Emergency Management Agency

to DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS MONTANA

healthactive
WORK BEGAN·LATEST ACTION·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_4655DRMTP00000001_070
Award description

PROVIDE REIMBURSEMENT TO STATE, LOCAL, TRIBAL, AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES AND CERTAIN PRIVATE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS FOR EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE MEASURES TAKEN DURING THE PANDEMIC. EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE MEASURES NECESSARY TO SAVE LIVES AND PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY. MANAGEMENT, CONTROL, AND REDUCTION OF IMMEDIATE THREATS TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY. EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE. MEDICAL SHELTERING. ADMINISTRATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF VACCINES. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Ongoing reimbursement to state and local governments for pandemic emergency response: medical care, sheltering, vaccine administration, and public health communications.

Sub-sectors
pandemic-emergency-reimbursementvaccine-distributionpublic-health-emergency
Why this matters

Federal reimbursement for pandemic costs underscores the scale of state-level emergency spending and informs future pandemic preparedness funding mechanisms.

U.S.–China competition angle

Pandemic response exposed U.S. medical supply chain vulnerabilities; relates to policy drivers for domestic vaccine manufacturing and emergency equipment stockpiling.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-13. Cost: $0.014658.

Period of performance
Start
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 92 days
Sources

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