FY 2019 NCS-X Implementation Assistance Program: Support for Local Law Enforcement Agencies

(Solicitation)
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information
Services (CJIS) Division partnered to implement the National Crime Statistics
Exchange (NCS-X), an initiative to expand the number of law enforcement agencies
(LEAs) reporting crime data to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System
(NIBRS). The NCS-X Initiative will support a scientifically selected sample of 400
LEAs in reporting incident-based crime data to NIBRS to produce statistically
sound, detailed national estimates of crime known to law enforcement. Through this
solicitation, BJS seeks applications from eligible NCS-X agencies to support costs
associated with reporting incident-based crime data that are compliant with the
NIBRS standard. BJS funding decisions under this solicitation will be made in
coordination with, and the concurrence of, the FBI’s CJIS Division.

The FBI has formally announced its intention to retire the Summary Reporting System
(SRS) of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and transition to a NIBRS-only
collection on January 1, 2021. To ensure crime data meet state UCR Program
requirements, local LEAs are strongly encouraged to work closely with their state
UCR Program while developing an IBR transition plan. In general, local LEAs report
data to the FBI’s NIBRS by submitting state-specific, incident-based data to their
state UCR Program, then the state UCR Program reports those data to the FBI. The FBI
and BJS advocate using the “state pipeline” for crime data reporting. For those
instances in which a state is not able to receive incident-based data from local
LEAs, the FBI will accept incident-based data directly from a local LEA until the
state pipeline is in place. However, agencies should report crime data directly to
their state UCR Program whenever possible.
All registrations and applications are due by 5:00 p.m. eastern time on December 27, 2018.