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Expired Funding Opportunities

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NIJ FY 08 Personal Protective Equipment: Invited Full Proposals

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding to research, develop, and demonstrate technologies that will enhance the safety of law enforcement officers and other criminal justice practitioners. Specific areas of interest include: 1. Improved protective uniforms for motorcycle officers. 2. Officer-deployable traffic control devices. 3. Less toxic materials for latent fingerprint identification/examination. 4. Assessment of long-term workplace exposure to hazardous materials. 5. Traffic-light-mounted sensors to warn motorists of approaching emergency vehicles. 6.

NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals

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NIJ is seeking is seeking applications for funding for research and development that can enhance the forensic uses of DNA technology in criminal justice settings. This solicitation focuses on development of technologies that result in faster, more robust, more informative, less costly, or less labor-intensive identification, collection, preservation, and/or analysis of biological evidence that has the potential for DNA analysis.

NIJ FY 08 ORE Policing and Public Safety Interventions

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NIJ is seeking applications to conduct research on policing to improve law enforcement policies and operations at the State and local levels. Effective law enforcement and crime prevention are of critical importance to ensuring the safety of communities throughout the country. Given the limited resources of most police departments and other local criminal justice agencies and groups, it is especially important to determine the effectiveness of police department policies.

NIJ FY 08 ORE Trafficking

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding for research projects to address knowledge gaps related to trafficking in human beings in the United States. NIJ is particularly interested in research related to labor trafficking, demand reduction for sex trafficking and commercial sex acts, and in identifying and addressing issues faced by trafficking victims. All applications should be for research with direct, immediate, and obvious implications for policy and practice in the United States.

NIJ FY 08 ORE Elder Mistreatment

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NIJ is soliciting applications for research and evaluation in the area of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (including abuse of individuals who reside either in the community or in residential care facilities). For the purpose of this solicitation, the term "abuse" includes physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, abandonment and isolation, neglect, or financial or fiduciary abuse perpetrated against any person over the age of 65 ("elderly") or individuals of any age who reside in residential care facilities.

NIJ FY 08 ORE Terroism

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NIJ is seeking applications to conduct social science research on terrorism that will inform national criminal justice policy and practice. Proposed research should aim to improve criminal justice and first responder strategies for preventing, preparing for, responding to, and mitigating terrorist incidents at the Federal, State, and local levels. Applications may address either domestic or international terrorism, but research should have direct, immediate, and obvious implications for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States.

NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA

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NIJ is seeking proposals from States and units of local government for funding to identify, review, and investigate "violent crime cold cases" that have the potential to be solved using DNA analysis and to locate and analyze biological evidence associated with these cases. Experience has shown that cold case programs can solve a substantial number of violent crime cold cases, including homicides and sexual assaults. Advances in DNA technologies have substantially increased the successful DNA analysis of aged, degraded, limited, or otherwise compromised biological evidence.

NIJ FY 08 Operations Research Applied to the Criminal Justice System: Invited Full Proposals

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NIJ seeks applications to research, develop, and demonstrate operations research models and methods that enable law enforcement and corrections agencies to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of their operations and to improve the judicial process. Proposed models and methods must identify and account for legal, cultural, and social factors that may affect the adoption and use of new technologies, practices, and procedures by criminal justice agencies.

NIJ FY 07/08 ORE Graduate Research Fellowship

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The NIJ Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited universities that support graduate study leading to research-based doctoral degrees. NIJ invests in doctoral education by supporting universities that sponsor students who demonstrate the potential to successfully complete doctoral degree programs in disciplines relevant to the mission of NIJ.

NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2007

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Awards made under this funding opportunity are either made non-competitively or are the result of an administrative funding adjustment.

NIJ FY 08 Enhanced Tools for Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and Vehicle Borne IED Defeat: Invited Full Proposals

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding to enhance the ability of law enforcement personnel to deal with the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs). NIJ is especially interested in proposals for the development and demonstration of new tools in the following areas of urgent concern: • Vehicle bomb confirmation. • Diagnostic tools for bomb disposal. • Enhanced reconnaissance capability for bomb squad robots. Proposals addressing other areas of response to the suspected presence of explosive devices also will be considered.

NIJ FY 08 Institutional Corrections Technology: Invited Full Proposals

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding technology research, development, testing, and technical evaluation projects that address the technology needs of State and local corrections agencies and other criminal justice agencies that collaborate with them. Concepts may address new technologies that support the operations of a correctional facility. Additionally, NIJ may consider the application of new technologies not developed specifically for corrections but which have corrections application.

National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards

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Awards made under this funding opportunity are Continuation awards. These are grants or cooperative agreements that provide supplemental funds to awards made in a prior fiscal year. Typically, these awards were made initially in response to competitive solicitations. NIJ often uses continuations to fund multi-year research and development projects.

NIJ FY 07/08 ORE Data Resources Program

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NIJ is requesting proposals to replicate previous findings and conduct original research extending data from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). NACJD houses quantitative and qualitative data from NIJ-funded research and provides online access to downloadable, machine-readable (SPSS, SAS, or ASCII) files as well as data dictionaries, study abstracts and, in limited cases, MapInfo or ESRI geographic data. The archive is maintained by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan and is supported by NIJ.

NIJ FY 07 Training and Assistance for Criminal Justice Professionals in the Collection and Use of DNA Evidence

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NIJ is seeking proposals from training provider(s) to develop or deliver (or both) knowledge-based forensic science curricula at the State or local level (or both). Applicants are encouraged to propose enhancements or modifications to existing training programs for computer-based or Web-based delivery. Dissemination of the product and sustainability of these initiatives is a priority.

NIJ FY 07 Solving Cold Cases with DNA

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With this solicitation, NIJ is seeking proposals to search, evaluate, select, and conduct DNA analysis on violent crime “cold cases” (i.e., old, unsolved cases) that have the potential to be solved through DNA testing. Experience has shown that such cold case review programs can solve a substantial number of homicides and rapes. Recent advances have improved the ability of analysts to successfully use DNA from biological evidence that is old, of poor quality, or limited in quantity.