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BJA FY 2026 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR)—Formula Grants Program
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Award ceiling
$3,500,000
Award floor
$0
- Opportunity #
- O-BJA-2026-172718
- Agency
- Bureau of Justice Assistance
- ALN (CFDA)
- 16.036
- Status
- posted
- Posted
- Sep 21, 2026
- Closes
- Oct 29, 2026
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
- Law, Justice and Legal Services
- Cost sharing required
- No
Who can apply
- •Special district governments
- •State governments
- •City or township governments
- •Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- •County governments
- •Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Other Units of Local Government: For the purposes of this NOFO, “other units of local government” include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.
Synopsis
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR)—Formula Grants Program. This opportunity will 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), thereby helping to reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis and/or to prevent a backlog of forensic and database DNA samples.
Contact
Bureau of Justice Assistance · OJP.ResponseCenter@usdoj.gov