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No. You can submit a collaborative proposal but it must be a single application and the award would be made to a single agency, which would have to establish means to fund the collaborating agencies.

Yes. However, the person in your organization who has signing authority to accept Federal grant funds is your organization's Authorized Representative (also referred to as the Signing Authority). This person must be empowered to receive funds on behalf of the organization and must be legally authorized to enter into agreements on the organization's behalf. If you are not the Authorized Representative, you must enter information about that person when you register.

If a single point of contact for your State is listed on the OJP Applicant Information Regarding Intergovernmental Reviews, then your application is subject to review.

No. The start date is the date you estimate that work on the proposed project will begin. Thus, your start date should be at least 6 months after the closing date of the notice of funding opportunity to allow for NIJ's decision- and award-making processes.

Grants.gov. The number of files you can upload to Grants.gov varies depending on the application package.

As detailed in Executive Order 14303, Gold Standard Science (GSS) refers to science conducted in a manner that is reproducible, transparent, communicative of error and uncertainty, collaborative and interdisciplinary, skeptical of its findings and assumptions, structured for falsifiability of hypotheses, subject to unbiased peer review, accepting of negative results as positive outcomes, and without conflicts of interest. 

Applicants should provide a brief statement (typically 1-2 paragraphs) describing how their proposed project will align with these principles and tenets. The statement should affirm support for GSS and explain the specific approaches or practices your project will employ to ensure compliance with GSS principles relevant to your proposed work.

Examples of approaches that may demonstrate alignment with GSS principles include (but are not limited to): robust data management and sharing plans that facilitate transparency and reproducibility; rigorous and appropriate study designs (e.g., clearly articulated research questions, valid and reliable measures, and well-justified analytic methods); disclosure and management of potential conflicts of interest; pre-specification of research protocols or analytic plans, where appropriate; transparency in methods, data sources, and assumptions; and clear plans for communicating study limitations, sources of uncertainty, and null or negative findings. Applicants should focus on the GSS principles most relevant to their proposed work and describe how their approach supports rigor, transparency, independence, and reproducibility.

There is no template for the statement. It is expected to be brief, typically 1-2 paragraphs, and does not count against the narrative page limit. 

The statement does not have to be signed. 

For more details on the GSS policy of the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as its scientific integrity policy, see:

• Gold Standard Science
• The Report of the Attorney General Pursuant to Executive Order 14303: Department of Justice Implementation of Gold Standard Science in the Conduct and Management of Scientific Activities
• U.S. Department of Justice Scientific Integrity Policy

Yes. The applicant institution must submit a copy of the student’s graduate academic transcript, which should document current progress toward the doctoral degree. Complete undergraduate transcripts must also be submitted. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.

The statement of support should be written and signed by the doctoral student's dissertation committee chair. If the student doesn’t yet have a committee, a faculty advisor, department chair, departmental director of graduate studies or individual with similar responsibilities may write the letter.