Closed - FY 2026 federal application window ended September 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM ETAtlas Opportunity Score 84/100
BJA FY 2026 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program — State Formula
FY 2026 BJA state-formula JAG funding supported corrections, drug treatment, mental health, equipment and technology. The federal application window closed September 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM ET; monitor BJA and state administering agencies for the next cycle and downstream opportunities.
Funding$201,610,091 in expected total program funding across 56 awards; maximum listed state allocation up to $21,479,876; no cost sharing or matching is required.
DeadlineGrants.gov step due September 18, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET; complete JustGrants application due September 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM ET
Last verifiedSeptember 26, 2026
Required next actionMonitor BJA for the next State Formula JAG cycle and state administering-agency downstream opportunities. The FY 2026 Grants.gov step closed September 18 and the final JustGrants deadline passed September 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM ET.
Broad Eligibility
State governments are the only listed direct applicants for this federal formula opportunity. Local governments, healthcare organizations, behavioral-health providers, nonprofits and vendors may participate only through a state-selected subaward, procurement, partnership or implementation pathway that is permitted by the controlling state plan and applicable JAG rules.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score 84/100. The federal program expressly permits mental-health, drug-treatment, corrections/community-corrections, equipment, contractual support, technology-improvement and information-systems uses, creating legitimate justice-health pathways. N9+ Fit Score 65/100 and conditional rather than core: the NOFO does not specifically require telehealth, so any remote-exam, mobile-care or connected-clinical role must be tied to a state’s selected implementation and allowable procurement or subaward structure. Dr. Miltie is not a direct applicant.
The U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance is accepting FY 2026 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program — State Formula applications. JAG is a broad state formula program that can support equipment, supplies, contractual support, training, technical assistance, information systems, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, mental-health and related law-enforcement/corrections programs, and planning, evaluation and technology improvement.
For Atlas, the strongest healthcare relevance is downstream through state-selected justice-health, behavioral-health, substance-use, corrections, diversion or crisis-intervention activities. N9+ Fit Score: 65/100. A connected-exam, mobile-care or telehealth component may be legitimate when it directly advances the state’s approved program design and procurement/subaward rules, but telehealth is not a stated core requirement of the federal NOFO. Dr. Miltie is not a direct applicant because direct eligibility is limited to state governments.
Source verificationOfficial government source · www.bja.ojp.govAtlas last verified this record September 26, 2026. Always use the funder's current application materials, amendments and portal instructions as the controlling source.View source and application materials ↗
