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Opportunity Summary:

The NIJ FY09 Technology Research and Development for Law Enforcement and Corrections Application (Funding Opportunity Number NIJ 2009 2012) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity issued by the National Institute of Justice, the research, development, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Justice within the Office of Justice Programs. The overall purpose of the solicitation is to generate objective, evidence-based knowledge and practical tools that can strengthen public safety and the administration of justice. In plain terms, NIJ is looking for applied research and development projects that move beyond theory and result in technologies or devices that law enforcement and corrections agencies can realistically adopt and use in day-to-day operations.

The opportunity is offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically signals a more hands-on relationship between NIJ and the award recipient than a standard grant. Under this kind of award, NIJ often expects to have substantial involvement in the project through collaboration, technical input, milestone review, and coordination around testing, evaluation, and transition into practice. The activity focus sits at the intersection of law, justice, and legal services with science and technology research and development, emphasizing innovation that can be validated, evaluated, and implemented in real operational environments.

NIJ highlights several priority capability areas where it wants to see research and development efforts lead to operationally useful outcomes. One major area is improved means to confirm an individual's identity, which can include technologies that strengthen identification accuracy, reduce fraud, and support reliable verification in the field or in correctional settings. Another priority is improved situational awareness, meaning tools that help officers, deputies, or correctional staff better understand what is happening around them in real time, anticipate risks, and make safer decisions. NIJ also seeks improved means to locate and track cooperative or noncooperative individuals, a broad category that can apply to locating missing persons, monitoring offenders, tracking subjects who may be evading contact, or supporting searches where individuals may not want to be found. In addition, NIJ calls for improved data analysis tools, reflecting an interest in technologies that help agencies make sense of large or complex data sources, identify patterns, support investigations, improve resource deployment, and inform policy and practice with stronger analytics. Finally, NIJ identifies improved means to detect contraband as a priority, which is especially relevant to corrections and detention contexts but also applies to law enforcement settings where detecting prohibited or dangerous items is critical.

Administratively, the solicitation was posted on January 16, 2009, with a creation date of January 23, 2009, and an original and current closing date of March 2, 2009. The archive date is June 2, 2009, indicating it was time-limited and later closed to new submissions. NIJ anticipated making up to 100 awards. The CFDA listing associated with this program is 16.560 (National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants). No cost sharing or matching requirement is specified, which generally means applicants were not required to provide non-federal matching funds as a condition of eligibility.

Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning the competition was broadly open to many types of entities, subject to any additional limitations or clarifications that would have been spelled out in the full solicitation document. In practice, that type of language commonly allows participation from a wide range of applicants such as universities, nonprofits, for-profits, state and local governments, and other organizations capable of conducting research and development and transitioning results into operational use, though the definitive eligibility rules would be in the linked solicitation.

For support, the announcement provides two main channels of contact. For technical issues related to application submission through Grants.gov, applicants were directed to the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 1-800-518-4726 or to email support@grants.gov. For questions about the program requirements and the substance of the solicitation, applicants were directed to Chris Tillery, Associate Deputy Director for Science and Technology, at 202-305-9829 or via email at george.tillery@usdoj.gov. The solicitation also references an additional information link to the full solicitation document, which would contain the detailed requirements for project scope, deliverables, evaluation expectations, budgeting, and reporting.

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