The main activities of the board center around spending grant money from the Urban Area Security Initiative grant program in support of regional homeland security activities.

In order to facilitate regional homeland security activities, the board commissioned five committees, each of which cover one of the areas the board has been tasked to look at. These committees include:

• Critical Infrastructure 
• Interoperable Communications
• Organizational Structure 
• Regional Training
• First Responders

Each of these committees were tasked to review projects that arise in their area, and to recommend the projects to the UASI board that they feel are most beneficial to the region.