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DNA Backlog Reduction Program

Program Information

Popular name

CEBR

Program Number

16.741

Program objective

Program now funded under Assistance Listing 16.036. Goal(s):  The goal is to assist eligible States and units of local government to increase laboratory capacity and reduce the number of samples awaiting analysis in both the casework and database sections. Objective: To assist eligible States and units of local government to process, record, screen, and analyze forensic DNA and/or DNA database samples to increase the capacity of public forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples, thereby helping to reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis. The Formula DNA CEBR Program awards funding to eligible entities with two main program objectives: 1. Increase the number of CODIS-eligible samples analyzed in forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories. 2. Reduce the forensic case and DNA database sample turnaround times for CODIS entry. Performance Measure 1: Number of DNA profile uploads into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS); and, Performance Measure 2: Number of cases completed since the beginning of the grant period.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

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.

Additional program information

  1. 2018

    This program has funded the analysis of thousands of DNA cases, including sexual assault kits, in state and local crime laboratories and the entry of hundreds of missing and unidentified persons cases into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, NamUs.

  2. 2019

    This program has funded state and local crime laboratories for the analysis of hundreds of thousands of DNA database and casework samples, including those from sexual assault kits, for upload into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).

  3. 2020

    See the BJA website at www.bja.gov.

  4. 2021

    Please visit https://bja.ojp.gov/program/coverdell/overview for information.

  5. 2022

    See BJA’s DNA CEBR Program Website at https://bja.ojp.gov/program/dna-cebr/grantees

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.

See 2 CFR Part 200, 2 CFR Part 2800, the current fiscal year’s solicitation available at https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities, and the Department of Justice Grants Financial Guide, available at https://www.ojp.gov/funding/financialguidedoj/overview.

  1. An act appropriating funds for the Department of Justice in the current fiscal year and, beginning with fiscal year 2018 and in certain, specified subsequent years, Section 3(a) of P.L. 114-324, the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016 (see program solicitation and award documentation for applicability).