Open-announced / verification hold. GEMA/HS announced a September 1, 2026 opening for the FY2025 cycle, but the live Georgia program page remains stale on FY2024 dates and materials and also states a 70% local-government benefit threshold that conflicts with FEMA's controlling FY2025 requirement that at least 80% of the federal award support local entities, including at least 25% of the total award for rural entities.Atlas Opportunity Score 74/100
Georgia FY2025 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) — 2026 State Application Window
<p>Georgia GEMA/HS announced that the final FY2025 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program application opportunity would open September 1, 2026. FEMA's FY2025 target allocation for Georgia is $2,448,068, with a 40% standard non-federal cost share, at least 80% of the federal award supporting local entities, and at least 25% of the total award supporting rural entities. Atlas is holding publication and ORIGINAL outreach because Georgia's live SLCGP page still displays the closed FY2024 April-May 2026 cycle, states an older 70% local-benefit threshold, and does not publish the controlling FY2025 Georgia subapplication deadline, per-project cap, applicant-specific requirements, or current FY2025 application package.</p>
FundingFEMA FY2025 target allocation for Georgia: $2,448,068. Standard FY2025 SLCGP cost share is at least 40% non-federal; multi-entity group projects use 30%. At least 80% of the federal allocation must support local entities, including at least 25% of the total allocation for rural entities.
DeadlineGeorgia announced the FY2025 SLCGP application opportunity would open September 1, 2026. As of September 22, 2026, GEMA/HS has not published the controlling FY2025 Georgia subapplication closing date, exact time, or time zone on the live SLCGP page; the page still shows the closed FY2024 cycle.
Last verifiedSeptember 22, 2026
Required next actionLocate and verify the controlling FY2025 Georgia SLCGP NOFO/application package, including Georgia subrecipient eligibility, per-project cap, allowable and prohibited costs, scoring, required forms/attachments, amendments, and exact closing date/time/time zone. Do not qualify applicants or initiate ORIGINAL outreach until those state-level terms are authoritative and CRM/queue/send-history gates are cleared.
Broad Eligibility
For FY2025, the governor-designated State Administrative Agency is the only entity eligible to apply directly to FEMA. FEMA's controlling FY2025 fact sheet requires at least 80% of the federal award to support local governments, including at least 25% of the total award for rural entities. Georgia local-government applicants therefore participate as state subrecipients, but the current Georgia FY2025 subrecipient solicitation, eligibility rules, project limits, forms, scoring, and exact deadline remain unpublished on the live GEMA/HS program page.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score 74/100. Legitimate Georgia-administered federal pass-through cybersecurity opportunity with a confirmed September 1, 2026 state opening announcement and a FEMA FY2025 target allocation of $2,448,068 for Georgia. FEMA's FY2025 materials require 80% local-government support and 25% of the total award for rural entities, while Georgia's live SLCGP page still displays the prior-cycle FY2024 dates and a 70% local-benefit statement. Publication and ORIGINAL outreach remain fail-closed until Georgia publishes or otherwise authoritatively confirms the controlling FY2025 state solicitation, deadline and time zone, subrecipient eligibility, per-project cap, forms, attachments, scoring, and amendments. N9+ Fit 0/100; QC Healthcare Fit 0/100.
The Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency (GEMA/HS), working with the Georgia Technology Authority, announced that Georgia’s final FY2025 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) opportunity would open on September 1, 2026. SLCGP is federally funded by DHS/FEMA and administered in Georgia through GEMA/HS as the State Administrative Agency.
Funding
FEMA’s FY2025 target-allocation table lists $2,448,068 for Georgia. FEMA states that FY2025 SLCGP has a 40% minimum non-federal cost share for standard projects; multi-entity group projects use a 30% cost share. At least 80% of each state’s federal allocation must support local entities, and at least 25% of the total allocation must support rural entities as part of that local pass-through requirement.
Program purpose
SLCGP supports cybersecurity risk reduction for information systems owned or operated by, or on behalf of, state and local governments. FY2025 objectives include cyber governance and planning, assessing systems and capabilities, implementing security protections commensurate with risk, and building the cybersecurity workforce.
Georgia administration
GEMA/HS announced on March 25, 2026 that the FY2025 Georgia SLCGP application opportunity would open September 1, 2026 and that applications would be accepted through Georgia’s EM Grants Manager. This is a Georgia-administered federal pass-through opportunity and therefore belongs to the Georgia State AutoSend lane rather than the direct Federal lane.
Verification hold
As of September 22, 2026, the live GEMA/HS SLCGP program page still displays the closed FY2024 Georgia cycle, including an April 1, 2026 opening and May 15, 2026 deadline, and links to FY2024 materials. It also says at least 70% of grant funds must benefit local governments, whereas FEMA’s controlling FY2025 fact sheet requires at least 80% of the federal award to support local entities and at least 25% of the total award to support rural entities. The current Georgia page does not publish the controlling FY2025 subapplication closing date or time/time zone, per-project award ceiling, current Georgia subrecipient eligibility details, required forms and attachments, state scoring criteria, amendment history, or the FY2025 state application package. Atlas will not carry forward prior-cycle Georgia requirements into FY2025 or substitute the stale 70% statement for FEMA’s current FY2025 terms without authoritative state confirmation.
Atlas assessment
Atlas Opportunity Score: 74/100. This is a legitimate, high-value Georgia-administered cybersecurity funding opportunity with a federal target allocation of approximately $2.45 million and a confirmed September 2026 opening announcement. The score is constrained because Georgia’s controlling FY2025 state solicitation is not currently exposed on the public program page. N9+ Fit: 0/100. QC Healthcare Fit: 0/100. No healthcare-device use case should be forced into this cybersecurity program.
Official Georgia source: GEMA/HS announcement of FY2025 SLCGP opening.
Official Georgia program page: GEMA/HS State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program.
Federal FY2025 source: FEMA FY2025 SLCGP fact sheet and target-allocation materials.
Source verificationOfficial government source · gema.georgia.govAtlas last verified this record September 22, 2026. Always use the funder's current application materials, amendments and portal instructions as the controlling source.View source and application materials ↗
