BJA FY 20 Crime Gun Intelligence Centers | BJA 2020 17017

Opportunity Information: Apply for BJA 2020 17017

The BJA FY 20 Crime Gun Intelligence Centers (CGIC) grant opportunity is a discretionary, competitive funding program from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), run in partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). Its core purpose is to help jurisdictions build or strengthen Crime Gun Intelligence Centers that bring together multiple disciplines and agencies to generate timely, actionable gun-crime intelligence. Rather than treating shootings and gun recoveries as isolated events, the program emphasizes coordinated analysis and rapid information-sharing so law enforcement, prosecutors, and forensic partners can identify likely perpetrators, link cases that share common guns or patterns, and move quickly toward disruption, investigation, and prosecution.

A key theme of the opportunity is the creation and long-term sustainment of multidisciplinary teams. In practice, that means structuring collaboration among local or state police, prosecutors, crime laboratories and forensic personnel, and federal partners (notably ATF) so that crime gun evidence and investigative leads flow quickly to the people who can act on them. The goal is to improve how jurisdictions trace the sources of crime guns, connect related criminal activity, and prioritize the most actionable leads for immediate enforcement and accountability. The program is designed around the idea that faster, better-integrated intelligence can prevent further violence by interrupting ongoing shooting cycles and targeting the drivers of gun crime more effectively.

Eligible applicants include a range of government entities: state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments. This eligibility reflects the program's expectation that CGIC efforts are grounded in local conditions and led by governmental agencies that can coordinate across the justice system. The funding instrument is a grant, and the program is associated with CFDA number 16.738. The listed activity categories span law, justice and legal services as well as information and statistics, reflecting the initiative's heavy reliance on intelligence development, analytical capacity, and coordinated operational decision-making.

For FY 2020, the opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number BJA 2020 17017) was posted on March 12, 2020, with an original closing date of May 11, 2020. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) was $700,000, and BJA anticipated making approximately seven awards. Taken together, those figures suggest a relatively selective competition intended to fund a limited number of sites with enough resources to stand up or significantly enhance the staffing, technology, workflows, and interagency agreements typically needed to produce consistent, actionable crime gun intelligence outputs.

Overall, this grant opportunity is aimed at supporting jurisdictions that want to move beyond traditional case-by-case approaches to gun crime and instead build a structured, intelligence-driven center or capability. The expected result is a more unified operational picture of gun violence and gun trafficking patterns, faster identification of suspects and networks, and improved coordination among investigators, prosecutors, and forensic experts so cases can be built more efficiently and disruptions can happen sooner.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance in the employment, labor and training, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), information and statistics, law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 20 Crime Gun Intelligence Centers" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.738.
• This funding opportunity was created on Mar 12, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 11, 2020. (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 $700,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 7 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).

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