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Opportunity Summary:

The NIJ FY 09 Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence Recovery grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number NIJ 2009 1950) is a National Institute of Justice solicitation focused on strengthening law enforcement capability to identify, collect, preserve, and analyze digital evidence. NIJ, the research and development arm of the U.S. Department of Justice within the Office of Justice Programs, is looking for practical, evidence-based advances that can be translated into real-world tools and methods. The overall intent is to fund work that produces objective, independently supported knowledge and usable technology that improves investigations and public safety outcomes in the electronic crime space.

This program supports projects that research, develop, and demonstrate emerging technology solutions for digital evidence recovery. The solicitation highlights three priority areas: cell phone forensics tools, digital evidence forensic examination tools, and computer crime investigative tools. In practice, that scope is broad and can include new techniques for extracting data from mobile devices, improved methods for processing and analyzing digital media, better tooling for handling encrypted or damaged data sources, and investigative support technologies that help agencies make sense of cybercrime activity. A key theme is moving beyond theory into demonstrable solutions, meaning NIJ is not only interested in concepts but also in development and proof of capability that law enforcement agencies can realistically adopt.

The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates more active involvement by the funding agency than a standard grant. Rather than simply awarding funds and stepping back, NIJ may collaborate on project direction, milestones, deliverables, or evaluation expectations to ensure the work stays aligned with criminal justice needs and produces outcomes that can be validated and shared. The opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding and falls under Law, Justice and Legal Services as well as Science and Technology and other Research and Development, reflecting its applied R&D emphasis.

Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning the competition is broadly open to a wide range of applicant types, subject to any clarifications contained in the full solicitation. The CFDA program number associated with this opportunity is 16.560 (National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants). The solicitation states there is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which generally lowers barriers for applicants that may not have non-federal funds available to contribute.

The timeline for the opportunity shows it was posted on December 11, 2008, with an application deadline of January 26, 2009, and an archive date of April 26, 2009. NIJ anticipated making up to 100 awards, suggesting the program was designed to support a sizable portfolio of projects and potentially a mix of research efforts, prototypes, demonstrations, or other deliverables across the digital forensics and electronic crime spectrum. The award ceiling and floor are both listed as 0 in the source data, which usually means applicants needed to consult the full solicitation for budget guidance, award size norms, or any limits tied to particular project categories.

For applicants and stakeholders, NIJ provided two main support channels: Grants.gov support for submission and technical issues (via the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 1-800-518-4726 or support@grants.gov), and a programmatic point of contact for solicitation requirements and content questions. The listed NIJ contact was Martin Novak, Program Manager, reachable at 202-616-0630 or Martin.Novak@usdoj.gov. The solicitation also referenced an additional information link directing applicants to the full solicitation document, which would contain the detailed requirements, deliverable expectations, review criteria, and any special conditions tied to digital evidence handling, testing, validation, dissemination, or coordination with law enforcement partners.

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