FY 2019 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)
Agency: Bureau of Justice Statistics
Assistance Listings
- 16.554 -- National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)
Closed opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026
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Description
The NCHIP grant program aims to improve the nation Âs safety and security by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information and by ensuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and noncriminal justice background check systems. Achieving this goal is contingent on accomplishing four objectives:
.Providing direct financial and technical assistance to states, state courts and tribes to improve their criminal records systems and other related systems in an effort to support background checks, including NICS checks.
. Ensuring the infrastructure...
is developed to connect criminal history records systems to the state record repository or appropriate federal agency record system and ensuring records are accessible through the FBI records systems
. Providing the training and technical assistance needed to ensure that records systems are developed and managed to conform to FBI standards and appropriate technologies, while ensuring that contributing agencies adhere to the highest standards of practice with respect to privacy and confidentiality
. Using systematic evaluation and standardized performance measurement and statistics to assess progress made in improving national records holdings and background check systems.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants
Miscellaneous
- Other
Additional information
Eligible applicants are limited to the agency designated by the governor in each state to administer the NCHIP (34 U.S.C. § 40301) and federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). (A determination by the Secretary of the Interior is not required for tribes to which federal recognition was extended by virtue of Public Law 115-121, the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017.)
Grantor contact information
Description
askbjs@usdoj.gov
askbjs@usdoj.gov
General Information
Documents
No documents are currently available.
Link to additional information
Closed: June 3, 2019
Award
$43,000,000
Program Funding
40
Expected awards
$--
Award Minimum
$5,000,000
Award Maximum
Funding opportunity number:
BJS-2019-15724
Cost sharing or matching requirement:
No
Funding instrument type:
Cooperative agreement
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
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Category of Funding Activity:
Information and statistics
Category Explanation:
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History
Version:
1
Posted date:
April 23, 2019
Archive date:
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