Opportunity Information: Apply for BJS 2018 13842
The FY 2018 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) is a Department of Justice grant opportunity run by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) that focuses on strengthening the accuracy, completeness, and usability of criminal history record information across the United States. The overall purpose is public safety: better records and better background check systems help ensure that criminal justice agencies and authorized noncriminal justice users can make informed decisions based on timely, reliable information. The program is built around the idea that background checks and record systems only work well when the underlying data is complete, properly linked, and consistently available through state repositories and national systems such as those maintained by the FBI.
The grant is organized around four core objectives. First, it provides direct financial support and technical assistance to states and tribes to upgrade and improve criminal records systems and related information systems that feed background checks. This can involve improving data capture, reducing missing or inaccurate dispositions, increasing automation, or strengthening the workflows between courts, law enforcement, corrections, and repositories so that records are updated quickly and correctly. Second, it emphasizes building and improving the infrastructure needed to connect record systems to the state repository or the appropriate federal record system, with the specific goal of making records accessible through FBI records systems. In practice, that means helping jurisdictions close gaps that prevent records from being shared nationally, ensuring systems can transmit data properly, and improving the integration needed for nationwide availability.
Third, the program prioritizes training and technical assistance so that these record systems are not only modernized but also operated in line with FBI standards and appropriate technologies. This objective also highlights privacy and confidentiality as essential requirements, stressing that agencies contributing data should follow strong practices to protect sensitive information while still meeting the operational needs of legitimate background checks. Fourth, NCHIP places weight on systematic evaluation, standardized performance measures, and the use of statistics to track progress. The intent is to make improvements measurable, comparable, and clearly tied to outcomes, such as increased completeness of national record holdings, improved timeliness of updates, and better functioning background check processes.
NCHIP is described as an umbrella program that can support multiple types of record improvement projects and funding streams, each with its own specific goals. Even with that flexibility, BJS strongly encourages applicants to treat record improvement as an integrated effort rather than a set of isolated projects. In other words, states and tribes are encouraged to coordinate across initiatives and funding sources so that improvements made in one part of the system (for example, court disposition reporting) actually connect to and strengthen the broader end-to-end record and background check ecosystem. BJS also encourages applicants to match or leverage federal dollars with other resources to the greatest extent possible, signaling a preference for projects that can show additional investment, sustainability, and broader impact beyond the federal award.
Administratively, this FY 2018 opportunity is a discretionary cooperative agreement (meaning substantial federal involvement and coordination may be part of the award structure) within the information and statistics funding activity area, under CFDA 16.554. The funding opportunity number is BJS-2018-13842. The solicitation was created March 13, 2018, with an original closing date of May 14, 2018. The maximum award amount listed is $5,000,000, and BJS anticipated making about 40 awards. Eligibility is listed as "Others," with further clarification referenced in the solicitation's additional eligibility information, and the program is aimed in practice at supporting states and tribes in improving their criminal history and background check-related records infrastructure.Apply for BJS 2018 13842
- The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2018 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.554.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 13, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 14, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $5,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 40 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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