David Garratt
Acting Deputy Administrator
David Garratt is the Acting Deputy Administrator at FEMA. He came to FEMA in 1995 and served as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Disaster Assistance Directorate since 2005.
As Deputy Assistant Administrator, he was responsible for programs within the Disaster Assistance Directorate including Individual Assistance, which provides financial grants, temporary housing, crisis counseling, and unemployment assistance for individuals and families; Public Assistance, which provides assistance to states, local communities and nonprofit groups to remove debris, support emergency protective measures, and restore and rebuild public systems and facilities; program responsibility for National Response Framework Emergency Support Functions 6 (Mass Care, Housing, and Human Services) and 14 (Long-Term Community Recovery); adjudicating all requests for Fire Management Assistance Grants and processing all gubernatorial requests for Presidential emergency and major disaster declarations.
In addition to his time as Deputy Assistant Administrator, Garratt also has served as Acting Director of Recovery; Acting Director of Preparedness; Director of Assessments and Exercises; and Chief of Capability Assurance. He has served in key positions supporting numerous Presidentially-declared disasters; established and directed the initial Homeland Security Coordination Center; and led the multi-agency coordination in developing and launching DisasterAssistance.gov, designed to improve and simplify access to information about disaster assistance by creating a central, online location for all forms of federal disaster aid.
Before joining FEMA, Garratt served in the U.S. Air Force where he managed programs and training associated with command and control.
Last Modified: Thursday, 26-Feb-2009 09:39:58 EST