Deadline: 17-Jul-24
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for Economic, High-Technology, White Collar, and Internet Crime Prevention National Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program.
OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to enhance the capacities of state, local, territorial, and tribal criminal justice systems to prevent, investigate, and respond to economic, high-technology, white collar, and internet crimes by delivering training and technical assistance (TTA) to diverse stakeholders. In addition, the program is intended to serve as a key resource to identify new and emerging issues in economic, high-technology, white collar, and internet crime and provide resources and training to educate the field.
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission to uphold the rule of law, to keep the country safe, and to protect civil rights.
Goals
- The TTA provider will provide high-quality, cost-effective TTA to state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions or agencies on preventing, investigating, and responding to economic, high-technology, white collar, and internet crimes. This service should reflect both onsite and remote technical assistance as appropriate.
Objectives
- Increase the knowledge of criminal justice practitioners through webinars, as well as in-person, online, and on-demand classes.
- Update and enhance existing materials and develop new resources to include educational deliverables both in 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 economic, high-technology, white collar, and internet crimes.
- Document the impact of provided TTA services for the stated IPEP goals and individual site progress with a concentrated focus on counterfeit goods that pose a threat to human health and safety, which are committed by organized crime, gang, and/or drug trafficking organizations.
- Improve the awareness of trainings and resources available to the field in these areas of interest and how these can be accessed.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Solicitation: $8,500,000
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award: Up to $8,500,000
- Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2024
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 1
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 12
Eligibility Criteria
- Public- and State-controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- BJA will consider applications under which two or more entities (project partners) would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant for the solicitation. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees).
- BJA may choose to fund applications submitted under this FY 2024 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and the availability of appropriations.
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