Deadline: 26-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding under the 2021 Internet of Things National Training and Technical Assistance Program.
The BJA Internet of Things National Training and Technical Assistance Program is designed to support law enforcement officers, public safety officers, and prosecutors by providing training and technical assistance (TTA) to state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement officials; intelligence analysts; prosecutors; judges; fusion center staff; and other criminal justice entities who prevent, investigate, and respond to crimes committed using wireless devices.
These crimes are committed using networked computers, handheld devices, and internet technology; some examples include various kinds of theft (financial, identify, etc.), cyber stalking, hijacking accounts on social networking websites, infrastructure intrusions, and hacking (i.e., reconfiguring or reprogramming a system to function in ways not approved by the owner, administrator, or designer).
Goals
- Provide high-quality, cost-effective training to the field with regard to systems of interrelated, internet-connected objects that are able to collect and transfer data over a wireless network without human intervention.
- Provide, under oversight and guidance from BJA, high-quality, cost-effective technical assistance to state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions with regard to the IoT.
- Provide training to state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies so they can provide awareness education to their communities with regard to the IoT to reduce victimization.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $1,783,731.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $445,932.00
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 4
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 18
Objectives
- Increase the knowledge of criminal justice practitioners through in-person and online training. This would include the development of needed training materials, and build and execute training modules for law enforcement.
- Make available educational materials about the IoT that can be used by jurisdictions for their communities. This should be made available in both written and electronic forms.
- Increase the ability of criminal justice agencies to solve problems and/or modify policies or practices related to preventing, investigating, and responding to the IoT and calls for service.
- Communicate regularly with BJA to assess the impact of the TTA services.
Deliverables
- Develop both online and classroom-style trainings addressing issues related to the IoT.
- Develop a database on IoT device capabilities.
- Develop instructional aides such as PowerPoint presentations, issue papers, policy and practice briefs, and handbooks which will assist agencies or jurisdictions in examining and improving their own policies and practices related to this subject area. Although the primary target audience for these materials is criminal justice system stakeholders, the products developed will, ideally, be adaptable for use by the general public to build community members’ awareness of prevention methods utilized by state and local agencies.
- Provide content and manage these items for the BJA-supported Law Enforcement Cyber Resource Center (LECC), hosted by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in conjunction with the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF).
- Customized technical assistance (offsite) that is designed to address the specific need(s) of each requesting jurisdiction or agency. Applicants should outline the elements of an effective technical assistance process, including the specific steps associated with selecting jurisdictions or agencies to receive assistance.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants: Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Other
- BJA will consider applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees).
- BJA may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2021 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334341
