No active solicitation right now. Only one NOFO on record so far (FY2026, posted August 17, 2026) — not enough history yet to call this a predictable annual cycle. Check BJA's CGIC funding page directly for the next one.
Browse active grants →Supports jurisdictions establishing or expanding Crime Gun Intelligence Centers to reduce firearm-related crime through timely collection and analysis of crime gun evidence using ATF systems and interagency coordination.
Apply directly on grants.gov, no state intermediary. State, county, city and tribal governments and law enforcement agencies (including prosecutors' offices) are the eligible applicants, so a lab applies through its police agency or government. A letter of support from the local ATF field division is required.
Official program pageState, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies (including prosecutors' offices), and state, county, city, and tribal governments, can apply directly. Category 1 funds expansion of an existing CGIC (up to $300K, 24 months); Category 2 funds implementation of a new CGIC (up to $700K, 36 months). A letter of support from the local ATF Field Division is required for either category.
FY2025: 99 applications received, no awards made yet.
FY2026: 7 applications received, no awards made yet.
Awards per year: FY2022 13 · FY2023 8 · FY2024 6 · FY2025 none yet · FY2026 none yet
15 of 27 awards with a filed description planned equipment purchases. Below, what the applications themselves say the money was for.
Counts are awards, from each award’s filed description, read by AI and checked word for word against it (recipient types also from recipients’ names). Planned uses, not confirmed purchases; most descriptions name no specific product.
Round totals: DOJ Office of Justice Programs award data. Award lists: USAspending.gov, plus DOJ’s own award list for rounds USAspending is missing. The award list covers only awards whose descriptions mention forensic work.
General advice for this program, not taken from the notice. The notice’s own review criteria are what reviewers actually score, so check these against it.
Explicitly detail your lab's existing or planned National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) workflows, including turnaround times for correlation requests and how results feed directly into active investigations within 24-48 hours.
Include signed memoranda of understanding from local ATF field divisions, prosecutors, and law enforcement agencies that define specific data-sharing roles and joint crime gun intelligence center (CGIC) meeting schedules.
Do not submit proposals with generic goals like 'improve gun crime response'; instead, provide baseline data on current crime gun submission rates and set measurable targets such as reducing time-to-correlation from 30 days to 5 days.
Proposals that focus solely on internal laboratory equipment upgrades without demonstrating a clear operational feedback loop to investigators and prosecutors will be viewed unfavorably, as BJA prioritizes integrated intelligence-driven outcomes over standalone forensic capacity.
A starting list, not the official one. Each notice ends with its own application checklist, and that is the list to work from once a round opens.
