2015 National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) Implementation Assistance Program: Phase I - Support for State Programs

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking proposals from state Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) programs to expand the state’s capacity to report incident-based crime data to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). BJS has the support of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which established and maintains the NIBRS program, for this project. The FBI is developing a plan to establish NIBRS as the law enforcement crime data reporting standard for the nation, with a complementary plan to phase out the Summary Reporting System of the UCR Program. This will result in an increase in the number of local law enforcement agencies reporting data to NIBRS. The typical mechanism by which a local agency contributes data to NIBRS is through its “state pipeline,” whereby agencies report their incident-based crime data to the NIBRS-certified UCR program in their respective state, and the state agency then sends the data from all the state’s contributing agencies to the FBI. The FBI advocates the use of the “state pipeline” for crime data reporting. The plan to transition local agencies to NIBRS reporting requires enhancing the “state pipeline” to ensure state Uniform Crime Reporting programs are capable of receiving and processing local incident-based crime data. Enhancing states’ capacity to receive and transmit NIBRS data is an effort jointly supported by BJS and by the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS). Funding under this solicitation will support (1) state programs that are transitioning from a Summary Reporting System to a system capable to receive state-specific incident-based crime data and report it in the NIBRS format to the FBI; (2) the establishment of a new state program capable of receiving state-specific, incident-based crime data and reporting it in the NIBRS format to the FBI; or (3) the expansion of the capabilities of an NIBRS-certified state program to receive and process more incident-based crime data.