Global Cybercrime and Cryptocurrency Assessment and Intelligence Gathering

The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is seeking applications to address cybercrime and cyber-enabled crimes. The project aims to disrupt and deter cybercrime networks harming American communities and businesses by strengthening foreign criminal justice institutions and regional coordination. The applicant will conduct baseline landscape assessments, country profiles, and situational updates to provide actionable intelligence packages. The assessment must focus on criminal actors, apply attribution confidence weighting, and account for underreporting. The applicant will also identify key threat actors, criminal methods, vulnerabilities, and emerging trends. The project has two goals: to disrupt and deter cybercrime harming American communities and businesses, and to disrupt and deter cryptocurrency-enabled criminal networks. Some key points to consider are: • The project has a global scope, with a focus on priority countries determined by baseline threat assessments and INL's strategic review. • The applicant must have specialized knowledge and demonstrated capacity in the typologies they propose to address. • The assessment must measure harm exclusively to U.S. persons, U.S. businesses, and U.S. critical infrastructure. • The applicant must apply a consistent, documented harm measurement methodology that enables comparison of harm levels across source countries. • The project has a budget of $2,196,890, with an estimated project start date of October 2026.