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FY25 BJA Formula Grants to Expand Crime Lab DNA Capacity and Reduce CODIS Backlogs

This opportunity provides formula grant funding to eligible states and local governments with crime laboratories to process more DNA samples. Support can help reduce forensic DNA and CODIS database backlogs by increasing lab capacity to analyze samples and submit them to CODIS. The goal is to ensure fewer cases and database samples are waiting for DNA analysis.

This funding opportunity seeks to support states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories that conduct DNA analysis to process, and/or to increase the capacity to process, more DNA samples for entry into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). The objective is to reduce the …

Funding Source

Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance

Awards & funding

Award Ceiling: $3.5M

Eligibility

Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
State governments

Units of local government: For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.

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