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Opportunity Summary:

The Officer Traffic Safety Research and Technology Development for Criminal Justice Applications opportunity is a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) discretionary grant solicitation (Funding Opportunity Number NIJ-2011-2838) focused on improving officer and public safety through applied research and technology development related to vehicle crashes. It sits under NIJ's broader Research, Evaluation, and Development Projects Grant program, which funds work meant to strengthen criminal justice policy and practice across the United States by generating evidence, testing solutions, and translating results into practical improvements for agencies.

The solicitation is centered on two main topic areas. The first is vehicle accident research, meaning studies that examine the causes, circumstances, frequency, and contributing factors behind crashes that affect law enforcement operations and criminal justice activities. This can include research that helps the field better understand when and why collisions occur, what operational or environmental conditions raise risk, and which policies, training approaches, or practices might reduce harm. The second topic area is vehicle accident avoidance technology development, which points to creating, adapting, or improving technologies designed to prevent crashes or reduce their severity in criminal justice settings. In practice, this could involve developing and testing systems, tools, or methods that help officers avoid collisions during routine patrol, emergency response, traffic stops, or other roadway-related duties where risk is elevated.

NIJ planned to make awards through cooperative agreements, a funding instrument that typically implies more active federal involvement than a standard grant, often through collaboration, technical input, or coordinated project oversight. The funding activity categories listed for the opportunity span Law, Justice and Legal Services as well as Science and Technology and other Research and Development, reflecting that NIJ was looking for projects that combine criminal justice relevance with solid scientific or engineering methods. The opportunity was open to unrestricted applicants, meaning it was broadly available to any eligible entity type (such as universities, nonprofits, private organizations, or governmental units), subject to any additional clarifications that might have been included in the full solicitation.

Administratively, the opportunity was posted on December 6, 2010, with an application closing date of March 7, 2011, and it was later archived on June 7, 2011. It carried no cost sharing or matching requirement, which means applicants were not required to contribute non-federal funds as a condition of award. The listing shows expected awards of 100, and it is associated with CFDA number 16.560, NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants. Award floor and ceiling are shown as 0 in the summary data, which usually indicates that specific funding ranges were not captured in that dataset and would need to be confirmed in the full solicitation text.

The legal authorities behind the solicitation include Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (sections 201 and 202) and section 232 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which together provide NIJ the statutory basis to support criminal justice research and related development efforts. For applicant support, NIJ provided a programmatic point of contact, Brian Montgomery (Physical Scientist), reachable by phone at 202-353-9786 and by email at Brian.Montgomery@usdoj.gov, along with Grants.gov support resources (800-518-4726 and support@grants.gov) for technical submission issues.

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