FY 2026 COPS Office-NHTSA Impaired Driving Curricula Invitational Program | O COPS 2026 172655

Opportunity Information: Apply for O COPS 2026 172655

The FY 2026 COPS Office-NHTSA Impaired Driving Curricula Invitational Program is a discretionary federal grant opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). The COPS Office describes its broader mission as advancing community policing and supporting the Administration's public safety priorities by providing funding and resources to state, local, territorial, and Tribal law enforcement agencies. Within that context, this specific program is focused on strengthening impaired driving training resources used nationwide.

The purpose of the opportunity is to update and enhance impaired driving curricula offered by the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In practical terms, this means the funded effort is expected to improve the content, quality, and usefulness of NHTSA impaired driving training materials, likely including revisions that reflect current research, emerging drug impairment trends, evolving enforcement practices, and training delivery methods that better support officers and partner agencies in the field. The emphasis is on curricula, so the core deliverables are educational and training products rather than enforcement operations or equipment purchases.

This award will be made as a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates substantial federal involvement during the project. Under a cooperative agreement structure, the recipient should expect active collaboration with the COPS Office (and likely coordination with NHTSA) on project direction, deliverables, review cycles, and implementation details, rather than operating with the lighter-touch oversight that is more typical of a standard grant.

Eligibility is restricted in a key way: it is an invitational program. Only applicants that have received a direct invitation from the COPS Office may apply, even though the eligible applicant categories listed include nonprofits (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3), excluding institutions of higher education), small businesses, and other entities. In other words, meeting an eligible entity type is not sufficient by itself; an invitation is the gatekeeping requirement for submitting an application under this announcement.

Funding details indicate a single anticipated award (ExpectedAwards: 1) with an award ceiling of $2,000,000. This suggests the program is designed to select one invited organization to carry out the curriculum modernization effort at a national scale, rather than distributing smaller awards to multiple recipients. The opportunity number is O-COPS-2026-172655, and it is associated with CFDA number 16.710, which is tied to COPS Office funding.

Key dates provided show the opportunity was created on July 24, 2026, with an original application closing date of August 31, 2026. Applicants who were invited would need to work within that window to submit the required materials and coordinate any cooperative agreement expectations, including proposed work plans, timelines, staffing, and curriculum development approaches consistent with NHTSA training needs and COPS Office objectives.

• The Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2026 COPS Office-NHTSA Impaired Driving Curricula Invitational Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.710.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2026-07-24.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2026-08-31. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Small businesses, Others.

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