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Innovative Traffic Safety Enforcement (ITSE) Grant Program

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · Opportunity NHTSA-693JJ926R000024-FY26

Who can apply

• State governments
• County governments
• City or township governments
• Special district governments
• Public and State institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Native American tribal organizations (other)
• Nonprofits with 501(c)(3), other than higher education
• Nonprofits without 501(c)(3)
• Private institutions of higher education
• Others

Applicants eligible for an award include a State or local agency, authority, association, educational institution, or nonprofit organization that demonstrates that it has organizational capacity and experience to carry out the responsibilities of administering, coordinating, and implementing the activities of this NOFO, as explained in Section III ‘Program Description’, and based upon the documentation submitted by the applicant as required in Section IV ‘Application Contents and Format’. Only organizations capable of fulfilling the criteria listed within this NOFO will be considered for an award.

About this opportunity

While the agency will consider innovative enhancements to existing countermeasures, the goal is to develop evidence-based projects that are scalable and transferable for use by State and local law enforcement agencies. The primary intent of this of the ITSE Grant Program is to 1) develop innovative traffic safety enforcement programs that demonstrate effectiveness by reducing the number of motor vehicle crashes due to one or more of the subject risky driving behaviors; and 2) ensure the traffic safety enforcement programs are repeatable and scalable for use by law enforcement throughout the United States. In addition to those goals, the Department seeks to fund projects that advance the priorities of this Administration as described in DOT’s mission statement and across executive orders.

Award history — National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Discretionary Safety Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Assistance Listing 20.614)

This program made 24 new awards in FY2025.

New awards recorded on USAspending.gov under the federal program that funds this opportunity. FY2025 figures may still be incomplete. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does not publish how many applications it receives, so a true success rate cannot be computed for this program — no one can honestly sell you that number.

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