Opportunity Information: Apply for HQ003421NOFOECO0002
The Department of Defense is offering a discretionary funding opportunity titled "Climate Adaptation and Landscape-Scale Ecosystem Restoration for Military Installation Resilience" (Funding Opportunity Number: HQ003421NOFOECO0002). The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, which generally means the recipient should expect substantial federal involvement during planning and execution rather than a traditional grant with minimal ongoing agency participation. The activity category is listed as "Other," indicating the work does not fit neatly into a single standard assistance bucket and is meant to support a cross-cutting set of outcomes tied to defense readiness, natural resources management, and climate resilience.
The core purpose of the opportunity is to advance projects that strengthen military installation resilience by addressing climate change impacts through landscape-scale ecosystem restoration and related conservation actions. The scope explicitly includes promoting compatible land use around installations, conserving ecosystems and wildlife, and implementing climate adaptation measures that reduce risks to mission continuity. In practice, this kind of effort often focuses on reducing environmental and climate-driven threats that can disrupt training, operations, or access to land, such as flooding, erosion, wildfire risk, drought stress, habitat fragmentation, sea level rise impacts, and other stressors that can undermine both infrastructure and surrounding natural systems.
This opportunity is designed for a single large award, with an award ceiling of $77,000,000 and an expected number of awards of one. That structure suggests the Department of Defense was seeking a lead partner capable of coordinating a broad, multi-jurisdictional program rather than funding many smaller, stand-alone projects. Landscape-scale work typically requires collaboration across federal, state, local, private, and nonprofit stakeholders because the ecological processes and land-use pressures affecting an installation often extend well beyond the installation boundary. Projects consistent with this scope commonly involve integrated planning, restoration and conservation implementation, and coordination mechanisms that keep surrounding land uses compatible with military training and operations while also producing measurable ecological and resilience benefits.
Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement. The issuing agency is the Department of Defense, and the CFDA/Assistance Listing number associated with this opportunity is 12.017. The opportunity was created on September 1, 2021, with an original closing date of September 8, 2021, indicating it was run on a tight timeline and likely targeted entities already positioned to execute a large-scale, defense-relevant conservation and resilience effort.
Overall, the grant focuses on using ecosystem restoration and conservation as practical tools for climate adaptation and installation resilience. It emphasizes aligning land use and ecological management across a broader landscape so that military installations remain operationally capable under changing climate conditions, while also delivering co-benefits such as healthier habitats, better wildlife conservation outcomes, and reduced long-term environmental risks that could otherwise increase costs or constrain training and readiness.Apply for HQ003421NOFOECO0002
- The Department of Defense in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Climate Adaptation and Landscape-Scale Ecosystem Restoration for Military Installation Resilience" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 12.017.
- This funding opportunity was created on Sep 01, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 08, 2021. (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 $77,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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