BJA FY 19 Southwest Border Rural Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Interdiction Assistance Grants | BJA 2019 16289

Opportunity Information: Apply for BJA 2019 16289

The BJA FY 19 Southwest Border Rural Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Interdiction Assistance Grants is a discretionary federal funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), created on April 30, 2019, with an application deadline of July 2, 2019. It is offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically means recipients should expect an active federal role in the project through collaboration, oversight, and coordination beyond what is common in a simple grant. The program is tied to CFDA 16.738 and sits within the broader category of law, justice, and legal services.

This opportunity supports the Southwest Border Rural Law Enforcement Violent Crime Reduction Initiative, described as a new effort aimed at strengthening rural law enforcement agencies along the U.S. Southwest Border. The core purpose is to reduce violent crime in border-region rural communities, with an emphasis on threats connected to drug trafficking and human trafficking. The focus on "information sharing" and "interdiction assistance" signals that BJA is looking for projects that improve coordination across agencies and jurisdictions, enhance operational awareness, and increase the ability of rural agencies to identify, disrupt, and stop criminal activity associated with cross-border trafficking and related violence.

The initiative is structured around two funding areas. The first is field-based initiatives, which generally implies practical, on-the-ground operational efforts that directly support rural law enforcement work in border areas. While the source description does not list specific allowable activities, field-based efforts in programs like this commonly involve improving cross-agency communication, intelligence or investigative collaboration, targeted enforcement operations, and practical support that helps rural agencies overcome resource limitations that make it harder to respond to sophisticated trafficking networks. The second funding area is a training and technical assistance (TTA) initiative, intended to expand the knowledge, skills, and implementation capacity of participating agencies. TTA components typically cover specialized training, guidance on best practices, and hands-on assistance to help agencies adopt effective approaches to violent crime reduction and interdiction while strengthening coordination with regional, state, tribal, and federal partners.

The award ceiling is listed at $200,000, and BJA anticipated making about 10 awards under this solicitation. Eligibility is labeled broadly as "Others," with the note that applicants should consult the solicitation's additional eligibility information for precise qualifications. In practice, opportunities framed this way often target a defined set of entities such as rural law enforcement agencies, local governments, tribal governments or organizations, regional partnerships, or other justice-related organizations operating in the specified geographic areas, but the controlling details would be in the full eligibility section of the solicitation.

Overall, the grant is designed to help rural Southwest Border law enforcement agencies address violent crime pressures linked to trafficking by combining practical field support with training and technical assistance, while using a cooperative agreement structure that encourages close coordination with BJA during planning, implementation, and performance monitoring.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 19 Southwest Border Rural Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Interdiction Assistance Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.738.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 30, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 02, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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