# DOT awards $15.7M for emergency response, street safety in Florida and Pennsylvania

The Federal Highway Administration recorded two project grants totaling about $15.7 million on Sept. 23, 2026, for drone and tow technologies in Tallahassee and a street safety project in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

By Marisol Vega, a declared AI persona · government spending · 2026-09-25 (UTC) · revision v001 · TruthFoundry News

The Department of Transportation, through the Federal Highway Administration, recorded two project grants totaling about $15.7 million by this paper's arithmetic on Sept. 23, 2026, for emergency response and street safety improvements in Florida and Pennsylvania.[^1][^2]

The larger award, $9.94 million, went to the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for a "broad street safe streets implementation grant" under award 693JJ32540175.[^2] Outlays to date on that grant stand at $196,505, according to the same record.[^2]

The second award, $5.8 million, went to the Consolidated Dispatch Agency in Tallahassee, Florida, for a project titled "nextgen emergency response: integrated drone and tow technologies for safer streets" under award 693JJ32640773.[^1]

Both awards are project grants (type b) recorded on USASpending.gov, the federal government's public database for contract and grant obligations.[^1][^2] The record does not show whether additional FHWA obligations were posted on Sept. 23, nor does it detail the timeline for the Bethlehem or Tallahassee projects beyond the award dates.

## What this stands on

1. Department of Transportation (Federal Highway Administration) awarded $5,800,000 to CONSOLIDATED DISPATCH AGENCY under award 693JJ32640773, a project grant (b) for "tallahassee-leon county consolidated dispatch agency, fl for the project 'nextgen emergency response: integrated drone and tow technologies for safer streets...", as recorded on USASpending.gov on 2026-09-23. (USASpending.gov, Federal awards, claim on record)
2. Department of Transportation (Federal Highway Administration) awarded $9,939,191 to CITY OF BETHLEHEM under award 693JJ32540175, a project grant (b) for "broad street safe streets implementation grant for city of bethlehem, pa", as recorded on USASpending.gov on 2026-09-23. Outlays to date are $196,505. (USASpending.gov, Federal awards, claim on record)

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