Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.

Number of Awards: 7,391
Total Amount Awarded: $3,904,954,950

Funded Awards
FY	Title Sort ascending	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2007	Vermont 2007 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program (In-House Analysis and Data Review)	NIJ FY 07 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program	Vermont Department of Public Safety	VT	2007-DN-BX-K001	$43,600	Closed
2009	Verification anfd Validation of LEAP An Encrypted Disk Drive Forensic Tool	NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	West Virginia University Research Corporation	WV	2007-DN-BX-K126	$100,000	Closed
2019	Verification and evaluation of a miRNA panel for body fluid identification using DNA extracts	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2019-NE-BX-0005	$169,628	Closed
2010	Ventura County District Attorney's Cold Case DNA Pilot Project	NIJ FY 10 Congressionally Directed Awards	County of Ventura	CA	2010-DD-BX-K126	$570,000	Closed
2002	Variable-Range Less-Lethal Ballistic, Phase II	Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grant - FY2002	Law Enforcement Technologies, Inc.	CO	2002-MU-MU-K007	$285,421	Closed
2015	Valuating Law Enforcement Data in the 21st Century: An Adaptive Mixed Methods Approach	NIJ FY 15 Developing a Method to Valuate Law Enforcement Data	Research Triangle Institute	NC	2015-IJ-CX-K005	$494,976	Closed
2008	Vallejo Police Department Solving Cold Cases with DNA Project	NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City of Vallejo	CA	2008-DD-BX-K309	$500,000	Closed
2010	Validity, Reliability, Accuracy, and Bias in Forensic Signature Identification	NIJ FY 10 Fundamental Research to Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines	Kentucky State University	KY	2010-DN-BX-K271	$466,710	Closed
2014	Validation Study of the Utility of Using Total Body Score and Accumulated Degree Days to Determine the Post-Mortem Interval of Human Remains from Three Human Decomposition Research Facilities	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Sam Houston State University	TX	2014-DN-BX-K009	$495,853	Closed
2018	Validation of Novel Statistical Approaches for the Interpretation of Trace Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-DU-BX-0194	$499,318	Closed
2015	Validation of Illumina's MiSeq FGx NGS Platform for Transition to Casework	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2015-DN-BX-K005	$150,000	Closed
2009	Validation of Highly-Specific Protein Markers for the Identification of Biological Stains	NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals	Colorado Seminary, which owns the University of Denver	CO	2009-DN-BX-K165	$243,427	Closed
2010	Validation of Forensic Characterization and Chemical Identification of Dyes Extracted from Millimeter-length Fibers	NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Instrumental Analysis for Forensic Science Applications	University of South Carolina Research Foundation	SC	2010-DN-BX-K245	$451,336	Closed
2019	Validation of a Single Instrument, Single Sample Protocol for the Detection of the Inorganicand Organic Constituents of Firearms Discharge Residue	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY	WV	2019-R2-CX-0044	$100,000	Closed
2015	Validation of a Probe Capture Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Whole Mitochondrial Genome Analysis	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Children''s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland	CA	2015-DN-BX-K053	$758,184	Closed
2020	Validation of a LC-DAD-ESI/MS/MS method for the accurate measurement of THC and THCA-A among twenty cannabinoids in various products of Cannabis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY	IL	2020-DQ-BX-0021	$160,181	Closed
2021	Validation of a Confirmatory Proteomic Mass Spectrometry Body Fluid Assay for Use in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021	NEW YORK CITY OFF OF CHEIF MED EXAM	NY	15PNIJ-21-GG-02712-SLFO	$105,592	Open
2018	Validating Conclusion Scales in the Forensic Sciences	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	2018-DU-BX-0212	$249,206	Closed
2007	UWB Enhanced Time Difference of Arrival System	NIJ FY 07 Sensors and Surveillance Technologies: Invited Full Proposals	Intelligent Automation, Inc.	MD	2007-RG-CX-K179	$300,000	Closed
2013	Utilizing Overtime to Decrease the Latent Fingerprint Backlog	NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Oregon State Police	OR	2013-CD-BX-0025	$81,156	Closed
2020	Utilizing eDNA from Four Biological Taxa Associated with Geologic Evidence for Sample-to-Sample Comparisons and Study Site Separation	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY	NC	2020-R2-CX-0035	$150,000	Open
2014	Utilization of microbial structure and function in investigations of criminal justice	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Mississippi State University	MS	2014-DN-BX-K008	$843,376	Closed
2007	Utility of Whole-Body CT Imaging in the Post Mortem Detection of Elder Abuse and Neglect: Comparison with and Potential Substitution for Standard Autopsy.	NIJ FY 07 ORE Elder Abuse	University of Maryland, Baltimore	MD	2007-DN-BX-0007	$292,341	Closed
2010	Utility of Postmortem X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) in Supplanting or Supplementing Medicolegal Autopsies	NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations	University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center	NM	2010-DN-BX-K205	$895,832	Closed
2007	Utica Police Forensic Programs	NIJ FY 07 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	City of Utica	NY	2007-CD-BX-0045	$94,942	Closed