U.S. Department of Justice FY26 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation
Opportunity number: O-BJA-2026-172662
Program owner: U.S. Department of Justice, including BJA, the COPS Office, OJJDP, and OVC
Summary: A competitive federal solicitation for federally recognized tribes, tribal consortia, and limited tribal designees to improve public safety, law enforcement, tribal justice systems, courts, corrections, justice facilities, treatment courts, youth justice, and victim services in tribal communities.
The FY 2026 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation combines eight DOJ tribal grant purpose areas into one coordinated solicitation. Eligible applicants may select the purpose areas that address their public-safety, criminal-justice, juvenile-justice, substance-use-related crime, treatment, and victim-service needs.
Purpose Area 1 directly supports tribal law enforcement through officer hiring or rehiring, overtime, training, vehicles, body armor, body-worn cameras, communications systems, and other equipment. Other purpose areas support justice-system planning, law enforcement, prosecution, courts, corrections, reentry, and tribal police, court, detention, and related justice facilities.
Who is eligible?
Applicant types: Federally recognized Native American tribal governments; consortia of two or more federally recognized Indian tribes; and tribal designees for certain Purpose Area 6 activities.
Federally recognized Indian tribes, including qualifying Alaska Native villages and regional or village corporations; consortia consisting of two or more federally recognized tribes; and tribal designees for certain Purpose Area 6 activities. Standalone police departments and other justice agencies are not independently listed as eligible applicants, but an eligible tribal government may apply for its law-enforcement or justice operations.
What can the funding be used for?
Uses vary by purpose area. Supported uses include hiring or rehiring qualifying career law-enforcement officers, tribal or village police officers, village public-safety officers, and school-resource officers; law-enforcement overtime, training, strategic planning, equipment, supplies, vehicles, body armor, body-worn cameras, radios, communications systems, and technology; crime prevention, investigation, apprehension, and prosecution; tribal courts and prosecutors; corrections, alternatives to incarceration, treatment, recovery support, and reentry; justice-system planning and data analysis; and renovation, expansion, replacement, or construction of eligible tribal police, court, detention, corrections, treatment, domestic-violence, and multipurpose justice facilities. Other purpose areas support specified treatment-court, youth-justice, and victim-service activities.
Restrictions
Restrictions vary by purpose area. Under PA 2, funds may not pay for stipends, incentive items, food, beverages, outside technical-assistance providers, outside planners, or organizations hired to create the tribe's strategic plan. PA 2 does not permit equipment to be budgeted in the equipment category, although specified computing and office items may be included under supplies or other costs. PA 4 does not allow temporary modular facilities or projects for state or local government facilities. PA 3 funds must predominantly support direct services, and applications focused on training and technical assistance will not be funded. Additional purpose-area restrictions apply beyond those shown in the supplied excerpt.
How to apply
Each eligible tribe, consortium, or qualifying tribal designee may submit only one application and may select applicable purpose areas. Step 1 is submission of the SF-424 through Grants.gov by October 15, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Step 2 is submission of the full application through JustGrants by October 22, 2026, at 8:59 p.m. Eastern Time. The October 22 JustGrants deadline is the final application deadline. A tribe may participate in a consortium and submit a separate tribal application only when the activities differ from those requested by the consortium.
Required materials
The source establishes a two-step submission consisting of an SF-424 through Grants.gov and a full application through JustGrants. Depending on the proposed PA 4 project, applicants may also need planning or needs-assessment documents, authorization to use tribal land or facilities, evidence of secured supplemental funding, support documents for regional projects, and staffing-funding documentation. The supplied excerpt does not include the complete application checklist for all purpose areas.
Program contact
DOJ Response Center
[email protected]
800-421-6770; 301-240-6310 (TTY for hearing-impaired callers only)
Official sources
- Office of Justice Programs checked September 2, 2026
- COPS Office checked September 2, 2026
Grant details can change. Confirm all requirements on the official source before applying.