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The objective of the Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) program is to protect the lives of law enforcement officers by helping State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies provide law enforcement officers with armor vests. Performance Measure 1: Total amount of federal funds that have been reimbursed to state and local jurisdictions for body armor vests. Performance Measure 2: Total number of body armor vests purchased as part of the program by state and local jurisdiction.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
Please visit http://ojp.gov/bvpbasi/home.html for information pertaining to program accomplishments and vests purchased.
Please visit http://ojp.gov/bvpbasi/home.html for information pertaining to program accomplishments and vests purchased.
Since 1999, the BVP program has awarded more than 13,000 jurisdictions a total of $467 million in federal funds for the purchase of over one million vests (1,395,976) as of February 2020.
Since 1999, over 13,000 jurisdictions have participated in the BVP Program, with a total of $548 million in federal funds for the purchase of over 1.4 million vests. For a complete list of FY21 grant awards please visithttps://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/media/document/fy_2021_bvp_awards.pdf
Please visit https://www.ojp.gov/program/bulletproof-vest-partnership/program-resources#h449q
Since 1999, more than 13,000 jurisdictions have participated in the BVP Program, with a total of $573 million in federal funds for the purchase of more than 1.5 million body armor vests. See the BVP program resources page for detailed FY2024 award history (https://www.ojp.gov/fy24-bvp-awards.pdf).
Since FY 2015, body armor vests were directly attributable to saving the lives of at least 305 law enforcement and corrections officers (based on data collected by OJP). Forty-three of those body armor vests were purchased, in part, with BVP funds.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
