Grants Tracking System

The Grants Tracking System (GTS) is a Windows-based database program developed by NHTSA to assist the states in the financial management of federal grants. GTS was designed primarily to automate the financial information process, produce the required federal financial documents at the program area level, and electronically transmit this information to NHTSA’s accounting department.
In FY 2018, NHTSA began assigning a unique Federal Award Identification Number (FAIN) to every financial assistance award. The new FAIN for each state is incorporated into GTS by NHTSA. A FAIN is comprised of numbers and letters.
GTS handles five major types of automated transactions. Each transaction type depends on the order of completion, validity, and accuracy. The five transaction types are:
  1. Obligation Limitation.
  2. Obligation Cost Summary.
  3. Advance of Funds.
  4. Advance Reduction.
  5. Voucher.
Explanations of each of these transaction types follow under separate subheadings.
NHTSA is developing a new Grants Management Solutions Suite (GMSS) and will switch to the new system when it becomes available.