Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations and TTA Program (DOJ)

• Published date: 21 January 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31511
• Date: 21 January 2021

Page 4 Federal Grants & Contracts ■ January 21, 2021

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Grants alert (cont.)

Areas: DOJ said research topics include but are not

limited to: understanding the most critical systems,

processes, and factors contributing to a crime laboratory

being a highly reliable organization and how they

can be improved or strengthened; and understanding

how organizational models, including systems-based

approaches, could be proposed, tested, evaluated, and

generalized to improve crime laboratory operations.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# O-NIJ-2021-45003

Justice Information Sharing Training

and Technical Assistance Program (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice

Assistance seeks applications for the FY21 Justice

Information Sharing Training and Technical Assistance

(JIS TTA) Program announcement for proposals to

manage the Regional Information Sharing Systems

(RISS) Technology Support Center (RTSC).

Deadline: March 8, 2021.

Funds: $5 million for one award of up to 12 months in

duration.

Eligibility: For-prot organizations; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, and Native American

tribal governments and organizations.

Areas: DOJ said the following activities and deliverables

are expected at a minimum: conducting reviews, policy

evaluation, and program analysis to inform RISS

operational functions, improve RISS levels of service to

the eld, and provide a basis for strategic planning of

future capabilities; facilitating collaborative efforts with

RISS partner organizations to support national and

regional meetings and events to include scheduling and

coordination of the RISS directors’ meetings; coordinating

and facilitating RISS Policy Board Group and other

working group meetings, committee meetings, and project

meetings as directed by the RISS directors and BJA to

include assisting with agenda development, identifying

meeting locations, sending meeting invitations, and other

meeting management responsibilities; and developing

RISS national reports and submitting aggregated RTSC

statistics as required by the performance measures.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# O-BJA-2021-51001

Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations

and TTA Program (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice

Assistance seeks applications for the FY21 Emmett Till

Cold Case Investigations and Training and Technical

Assistance Program announcement for costs associated

with the investigation and prosecution of unsolved

homicide cold case murders suspected of having been

racially motivated, including support for victims’ families

and stakeholders impacted by these cases.

Deadline: March 30, 2021.

Funds: $3.27 million for awards of up to $500,000.

Eligibility: For-prot organizations, other than small

businesses; and state, local, and Native American

governments.

Areas: DOJ said it will give priority to applications as

follows: applications that address specic challenges

that rural communities face; applications that

demonstrate that the individuals who are intended to

benet from the requested grant reside in high-poverty

areas or persistent-poverty counties; and applications

that offer enhancements to public safety in economically

distressed communities (Qualied Opportunity Zones).

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# O-BJA-2021-45002

Battleeld resuscitation for immediate

stabilization of combat casualties award (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department seeks applications

for the Defense Medical, Battleeld Resuscitation for

Immediate Stabilization of Combat Casualties Award

announcement to support the early development of

high-impact materiel products and new ways, methods,

or modications to existing trauma practice for future

multi-domain operations where evacuation capabilities

may be signicantly delayed or unavailable.

Deadline: April 7, 2021.

Funds: $16.7 million total for up to 21 awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said characteristics and concepts to

consider include but are not limited to: low-weight

and low-cube, where, compared to existing materiel

products, the product is a smaller size and weight to

aid in portability and storage; low-power, longer shelf

life, where the product has reduced power usage

requirements and longer shelf life than currently

available products; modularity and interoperability,

where the materiel product is compatible with and easily

added to existing technologies, equipment, or platforms

being used by the military; and ruggedization, where the

materiel product is able to withstand harsh and varied

environments such as extreme temperature uctuations,

vibration, and high altitude while maintaining operability

and stability.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-21-DMRDP-

BRISCC

Immersive Sciences for Training, Education,

Mission Rehearsal, and Operations (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s Office of Naval

Research seeks applications for the Immersive

Sciences for Training, Education, Mission Rehearsal,

and Operations announcement to use mixed reality

technologies to improve training and operations for

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