Opportunity Information: Apply for O BJS 2025 172527
The BJS FY25 Consolidated National Criminal History Improvement Program offers approximately $135 million in grants across three initiatives aimed at enhancing public safety and the effectiveness of background checks:
1. NCHIP ($70M): Focuses on improving the accuracy, completeness, and availability of criminal history records. The goal is to strengthen national background check systems used for both criminal justice and certain non-criminal justice purposes (e.g., firearm purchases, employment).
2. NCHIP Special Funds – BSCA ($40M): Supports efforts to reduce violent crime and gun violence by funding improvements to the quality and interstate sharing of criminal history and related records. This program is tied to the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and supports both name- and fingerprint-based background checks.
3. NARIP ($25M): Targets updates to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), particularly related to records like mental health adjudications, restraining orders, and domestic violence convictions that may legally prohibit firearm possession.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics oversees these efforts to ensure consistency and coordination across programs. Eligible applicants include state agencies, court systems, and tribal governments responsible for managing criminal history records and background check processes.Apply for O BJS 2025 172527
- The Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJS FY25 Consolidated National Criminal History Improvement Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.554, 16.813.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2026-01-15.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2026-02-24. (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 $2,410,714.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 56 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others.
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