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2026-07-07
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Staffing Analysis Implementation Program

26JD01 · National Institute of Corrections

justice law education workforce Other

Closes
2026-07-30 · 23 d
Award ceiling
$200,000
Award floor
Program funding
$200,000
Expected awards
1
Cost sharing
No
Posted
2026-06-15
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Characterization · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-07

NIC will fund an organization to deliver virtual staffing analysis training and individualized coaching to federal, state, local, and tribal corrections agencies as they complete staffing analyses at their facilities.

Funds
training education
University
direct
social behavioral
minor
computational data
minor

RESTRICTED TO: NONPROFITS · SINGLE NAMED INSTITUTION

⚑ Applicants may include eligible nonprofits, for-profits, and institutions of higher education; foreign governments and international organizations are ineligible. · For-profit recipients must waive any profit or fee for services. · Proof of 501(c)(3) status or authorizing tribal resolution is required. · Only one application per submitting organization is accepted.

Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules

IPPRA 39 weak outside portfolio topics; signature methods: community engaged; social/behavioral work is minor; funds training education, not research (capped)
Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) 25 weak technical depth: minor; funds training education (capped)
Tom Love Innovation Hub 5 none not openly competed

Description

NIC has been providing staffing analysis resources to the corrections community for over 30 years. Their staffing analysis process and methodology are widely regarded as the industry standard within the corrections community and beyond.

Through this cooperative agreement, NIC seeks to provide the corrections community with opportunities to participate in the Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) version of staffing analysis training. This program will enhance and expand staffing analysis training and technical assistance for federal, state, local, and tribal corrections agencies.

Extracted from the processes and methodology depicted in NIC staffing analysis resources, the staffing analysis VILT curriculum was developed with distinct advantages for the participating agencies over the in-class delivery method. The staffing analysis process can be time-consuming and daunting for new or inexperienced analysts. As with most things, practical experience is the best instructor. Unlike the in-class curriculum, the NIC staffing analysis VILT training program provides participating agencies with step-by-step instruction and actual completion of a staffing analysis over the course of the training engagement.

Participants will be supported throughout the learning process through live virtual instruction, structured intersession assignments, and individualized coaching as they complete a staffing analysis of custodial line officers and first-line supervisors at one of their agency’s facilities.

Eligibility

NIC invites applications from nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). Recipients, including for-profit organizations, must agree to waive any profit or fee for services. Foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental international organizations/institutions are not eligible to apply. Proof of 501(c) (3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service or an authorizing tribal resolution is required.NIC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant, and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire program. Only one (1) application will be accepted from a submitting organization.NIC may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.

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View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Mark A Wyche Grantor <mwyche@bop.gov>

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