OJJDP FY 2026 Internet Crimes Against Children On-Line Child Protection System (ICACCOPS)
This cooperative agreement funds maintenance and enhancement of the ICACCOPS technology platform that supports child exploitation investigative tools, data services, and security functions for the ICAC Task Force network.
⚑ Eligibility not stated in the notice; confirm applicant classes in the full NOFO. · Cooperative agreement: substantial federal involvement is likely. · Primary purpose is maintaining/enhancing an operational investigative IT system, not research. · Child exploitation/CSAM investigative context may imply sensitive data/security requirements.
This is a cybersecurity/data-infrastructure support grant for law-enforcement investigative tooling, not a social-science, policy, risk-perception, or evaluation project. The team might intersect with public safety in a very broad sense, but this is not in their published program lines.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-10-09
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 75 strong | technical depth: central; funds data infrastructure |
| IPPRA | 58 good | portfolio topics: cybersecurity, public_health; social/behavioral work is minor; funds data/survey infrastructure; eligibility unclear — verify in the NOFO |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 30 weak | prototyping/demonstration stage; deep-tech content |
Description
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Internet Crimes Against Children On-Line Child Protection System (ICACCOPS). This opportunity supports maintenance of and enhancements to the Internet Crimes Against Children On-line Child Protection System (ICACCOPS) investigative tools. ICACCOPS is a system that provides a common information technology infrastructure for child exploitation and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) investigative tools and services. ICACCOPS supports investigative applications and data by providing data services, system services, network services, security and authentication services, and management tools to support users and the delivery of investigative data and services. Ultimately, this work supports the work of the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program, a national network of 61 multi-agency, multijurisdictional task forces engaged in investigations, forensic examinations, and prosecutions related to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation.
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