FYs 2024 through 2026 - Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) Competitive Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity
This grant provides up to $787 million from 2024-2026 for projects that improve the resilience of highways, public transit, ports, and rail against disruptions and natural disasters.
Funder: DOT Federal Highway Administration
Due Dates: October 9, 2026 (applications, 11:59 PM EST)
Funding Amounts: Up to $787 million available; anticipated awards of $100,000–$10 million for Planning and $500,000–$60 million for Resilience Grants; anticipated performance period of 1–4 years
Summary: Funds planning and projects that make surface transportation more resilient to natural hazards and changing conditions.
Key Information: A completed Planning or Resilience Grant Application Template is required; applications without it will not be reviewed.
Description
The Federal Highway Administration’s PROTECT Competitive Grant Program funds work to help surface transportation withstand and recover from current and future weather events, natural disasters, and changing conditions. It covers highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail. The program aims to protect transportation assets, maintain or restore service to communities, strengthen coastal infrastructure, and support natural infrastructure that protects transportation systems.
Planning Grants support vulnerability assessment, resilience and evacuation planning, design, data tools, and technical capacity building. Three Resilience Grant categories support improvements to existing assets, evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure. Projects must be primarily for resilience or inherently resilience-related.
