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BJA FY 2026 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR)—Formula Grants Program

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Next cut-off
29 Oct '26
in 37 days
Per grant
$3.5M
the call's own average
Grants expected
140
projects that will be funded
Funding rate
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In context of US federal, USDOJ

This grant$3.5M
The track runs to the largest grant in US federal, USDOJ ($24M). The median across the 51 calls we publish is $1.0M, this one is above it.

What this call funds

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.

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort3–4 weekssingle submission
Time to first payment6–9 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

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