Blue Campaign Program Evaluation & Violence Prevention Advisement

Agency: Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division

97.108 -- Homeland Security, Research, Testing, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Technologies

Archived opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026

Description

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is committed to using cutting-edge technologies and providing scientific expertise in its quest to make America safer. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is tasked with researching and organizing the scientific, engineering, and technological resources of the United States and leveraging these resources to develop tools, methods and research to help protect the homeland. The Social Sciences Technology Center (SS-TC) advances technology and knowledge to improve performance, policy, strategy, tactics, techniques, procedures, and operational impacts to enable communities to augment their existing programs and prevention and response plans to ensure that they include effective protocols and strategies to address the immediate and long-term needs of victims, families, first responders and communities after mass violence or terrorism incidents and, human trafficking crimes..

Due to the growing number of threats our nation is combating, SS-TC supports the evolving threat landscape of a dynamic world with changing motivations, actors, communication models, and weaponry. Effective response requires a sophisticated understanding of the threat environment and innovations in technology and applications. These challenging tasks requires access to a broad set of expertise drawn from the fields of psychology, economics, criminology, political science, sociology, biostatistics, and other social and evaluation disciplines. Knowledge and findings from this research will be transferred to federal, state, local, and private organizations to enable education and awareness to reinforce a whole-of-society prevention architecture. These prevention efforts will equip and empower local efforts – including peers, teachers, community leaders, and law enforcement—to minimize a threat as it evolves while enhancing emergency preparedness and response.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Education

Private institutions of higher education
Public and state institutions of higher education

Nonprofit

Nonprofits non-higher education without 501(c)(3)
Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)

Business

For-profit organizations other than small businesses
Small businesses

Miscellaneous

Individuals

Additional information

To be eligible for this program, must meet the below requirements: 1. Applicants must not be a Government organization. At the time of application, applicants that propose to become the PM must have at least three years of experience performing program evaluations. 2. National laboratory employees may participate in planning, conducting, and analyzing the activities directed by the applicant, but may not direct projects on behalf of the applicant organization. 3. The standards organization may provide funds through its assistance agreement with DHS to an FFRDC for project-specific, non-federal research personnel, supplies, equipment, facilities, data, and other expenses directly related to activities under this cooperative agreement. 4. Federal agencies may not apply. Federal employees are not eligible to serve in a principal leadership role on a grant or cooperative agreement and may not receive salaries or in other ways augment their agency's appropriations through awards made by this program. a. Nonetheless, federal employees may interact substantively with awardees in the form of cooperation. b. Cooperation involves consulting on the planning, management, and coordination of standards organization and/or information sharing and analysis organization activities, sharing or comparing information, indicators, samples, equipment, facilities, data, models, or other support during the conduct of the standards development and related activities in which the interaction is substantial and requires the award of a cooperative agreement, rather than a grant. c. Substantial involvement occurs when the collaboration or cooperation of a federal employee or facility is necessary to achieving the overall goals of the activities supported by this cooperative agreement.

Grantor contact information

Description

Janet Bailey Grants Specialist Phone 202-447-0362

Email

janet.bailey@hq.dhs.gov

Documents

File name	Description	Last updated
FY2020_NOFO_Blue_Campaign_Program_Evaluation__Violence_Prevention_Advisement.pdf	Notice of Funding Opportunity	Sep 8, 2020 02:42 PM UTC
Q_and_As.pdf	Questions and Answers	Sep 16, 2020 10:38 AM UTC
Application_Instructions.pdf	Application Instructions	Sep 21, 2020 07:19 PM UTC

Link to additional information

Archived: November 18, 2020

Application process

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Award

$875,000

Program Funding

Expected awards

$100,000

Award Minimum

$775,000

Award Maximum

Funding opportunity number:

DHS-ST-20-108-FR01

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

Funding instrument type:

Cooperative agreement

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

Category of Funding Activity:

Science technology and other research and development

Category Explanation:

History

Version:

Posted date:

September 4, 2020

Archive date:

November 18, 2020