The FY2027 President's Budget requests $474.7M for Alternatives to Detention, within Homeland Security's Operations and Support account. That is up 21% on the FY2026 figure of $391.0M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $391.0M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $391.0M |
| FY2027 | request | $474.7M |
The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Homeland Security discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Alternatives to Detention - PPA Level II Enforcement and Removal Operations - PPA Alternatives to Detention - PPA II Detention and Deportation Officers (DDOs): ATD DDOs provide oversight to aliens eligible for ATD through contractor-supported case management utilizing technology, home and office visits, alert response, and residence verifications. Non-LEOs: ATD non-LEOs perform administrative duties, such as court case tracking and case management, to allow ATD LEOs to focus on their Enforcement and Removal Operations - PPA Alternatives to Detention - PPA II Explanation of Non Pay Cost Drivers ATD ISAP IV (no FERM): Case management, technology, and contractor support to facilitate alien compliance with immigration release conditions, court hearings, and final orders of removal from the United States. Program & ERO Mission Support: Represent the essential resources required to sustain and enhance the operational effectiveness of ERO programs. These costs ensure that personnel, infrastructure, and technology are available to support the agency's mission of enforcing immigration Rapid DNA Testing: A rapid, low-cost, DNA-based family relationship (kinship) verification to improve immigration efficiency for legal kinship applicants, reduce kinship fraud, provide for family reunifications and conduct DNA watch list checks. Swift Contract Support: A program designe
Extracted from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, p. 5. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
Contracts funded by this line
7 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.
| Contract | Vendor | Confidence | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70CDCR18FR0000118 last action FY2019 | B.I. INCORPORATED | Medium confidence | $162.2M |
| 70CDCR19FR0000077 last action FY2021 | B.I. INCORPORATED | Medium confidence | $138.5M |
| HSCEDM17J00026 last action FY2019 | B.I. INCORPORATED | Medium confidence | $123.2M |
| HSCEDM16J00039 last action FY2017 | B.I. INCORPORATED | Medium confidence | $107.2M |
| HSCEDM15J00032 last action FY2017 | B.I. INCORPORATED | Medium confidence | $75.9M |
| 70CDCR21P00000056 last action FY2023 | T STAMP INC. | Medium confidence | $5.0M |
| 70CDCR20FR0000062 last action FY2022 | THE RAND CORPORATION | Medium confidence | $1.5M |
Confidence mix · 7 medium
Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.
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