The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks applications for funding to host a Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center.
Donor Name: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/06/2023
Size of the Grant: $3,500,000.00
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals to host a Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center. The Center will provide testing, evaluation, and other activities to support the safety, effectiveness, efficiency, and efficacy of technologies in use or adaptable by criminal justice and juvenile justice communities. The Center will inform NIJ’s research and development efforts as well as NIJ’s stakeholders, including criminal justice practitioners, policymakers, researchers, federal partners, and private industry, by: conducting secondary research on technologies and technology implementation for potential use by criminal justice communities; performing experimental testing and evaluation on technologies to inform potential adoption by criminal justice agencies; conducting experimental or rigorous quasi-experimental research and evaluation of technology implementation by criminal justice agencies; administering the NIJ Compliance Testing Program (CTP); and supporting the development, validation, and maintenance of criminal justice equipment standards. This program furthers the Department’s mission by sponsoring research to provide objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the state and local levels.
NIJ will give special consideration to proposals with methods that include meaningful engagement with the people with lived experience of the subject of study, including, but not limited to, justice practitioners, community members, crime victims, service providers, and individuals who have experienced justice system involvement.
Applicants are encouraged to propose multidisciplinary research teams to build on the complementary strengths of different methods and areas of subject matter expertise. NIJ also seeks proposals that include consideration and measurement of issues of diversity, discrimination, and bias across age, gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, as applicable.
Goals
The goal of this solicitation is to provide testing evaluation, and other activities to inform NIJ’s non- forensic research and development efforts, and to inform the criminal justice field concerning technologies and technology implementation in a more innovative, sustainable, efficient, and effective manner.
Objectives
Objectives and deliverables will vary with each project undertaken, but in general will involve development and publication of research reports, guides, and knowledge products. All activities undertaken by this center will be evidence-based, will collect and use relevant data, will be reported in a fashion that is understood by all stakeholders, and will provide practical information that can be used by the criminal justice community. The principal consumers of the deliverables resulting from the center’s activities will be members of the three criminal justice communities of practice: law enforcement, corrections, and courts.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $3,500,000.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $3,500,000.00
Period of Performance Duration (Months)
60
Eligible Applicants
- State governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Independent school districts
- County governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- City or township governments
For the purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Foreign governments, foreign organizations, and foreign colleges and universities are not eligible to apply. Federal agencies are eligible to apply.
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