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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 Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2004 A Compact and Rugged Pulsed Laser Technology Platform for Counter-Personnel LLWs FY 2004 Less-Lethal Technologies Solicitation Sterling Photonics Inc NM 2004-IJ-CX-K043 $358,259 Closed
2006 A Collaborative Approach to Eliminating Street Drug Markets: A Process and Outcome Evaluation NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of Public Safety Interventions University of North Carolina at Greensboro NC 2006-IJ-CX-0034 $283,001 Closed
2015 A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the Safe Public Spaces in Schools Program (NIJ Comprehensive School Safety Initiative[Category 1]) NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative American Institutes for Research DC 2015-CK-BX-0012 $2,042,273 Closed
2003 A Chip-Based Genetic Detector for Rapid ID of Individuals National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Nanogen Inc. CA 1997-LB-VX-0004 $224,110 Closed
2012 A Chicago Police Department initiative to resolve cold case homicides through comprehensive case reviews and use of current DNA technologies. NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Chicago, City of IL 2012-DN-BX-K004 $499,565 Closed
2006 A Case Study of Human Trafficking: The Transnational Movement of Chinese Women for Sex Work NIJ FY06 ORE Transnational Crime Rutgers, The State University NJ 2006-IJ-CX-0008 $284,287 Closed
2013 A Brief Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Dating Aggression Perpetration NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2013-VA-CX-0001 $741,630 Closed
2020 A Black Box Study of the Accuracy and Reproducibility of Tire Evidence Examiners' Conclusions Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 NOBLIS, INC. VA 2020-DQ-BX-0026 $720,610 Past Project Period End Date
2006 A Bayesian Data Trawler for Urban Public Safety NIJ FY06 Modeling and Simulation Research and Development: Software for Improved Operations, Operational Modeling, Speech-to-Text Recognition, and Training Technologies Structured Decisions Corporation MA 2006-IJ-CX-K011 $350,000 Closed
2007 A Bayesian Data Trawler for Urban Public Safety National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Structured Decisions Corporation MA 2006-IJ-CX-K011 $150,000 Closed
2023 A 28-year longitudinal study of victimization and perpetration of violence in high-risk youth: Advancing the development of preventive interventions in the community NIJ FY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Training & Technical Assistance Support NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IL 15PNIJ-23-GG-04269-CVIP $1,000,000 Open
2023 911, What's Your Emergency?: Factors Impacting Call Coding NIJ FY23 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 15PNIJ-23-GG-01367-NIJB $500,000 Open
2020 3D morphology of blood stain can provide critical information missed in standard bloodstain analysis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MA 2020-DQ-BX-0006 $361,656 Past Project Period End Date
2007 3D Locator System for Law Enforcement -A Navigational Technology With the Ability to Accurately Locate an Officer Within One Meter in Both Horizontal and Vertical Planes Where GPS is Unavailable NIJ FY 07 Communications Technology: Invited Full Proposals Sedona Strategies, LLC CA 2007-DE-BX-K012 $249,378 Closed
2014 3D Laser Scanning Equipment for Crime Scene Analysis NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of New Orleans LA 2014-CD-BX-0024 $171,362 Closed
2009 3D Hand-Held Surveillance and Real Time Multi-Modal Recognition Device NIJ FY 09 Technology Research and Development StereoVision Imaging, Inc. CA 2009-IJ-CX-K001 $483,433 Closed
2011 3D Characterization and Comparison of Fracture Surfaces NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Ames Laboratory (DOE) 2011-DN-R-0230 $355,000 Closed
2011 3D Characterization and Comparison of Fracture Surfaces NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Ames Laboratory (DOE) 2011-DN-R-0230-1 $355,000 Closed
2016 21st Century Policing: Cross-Site, Multi-Stakeholder Sentinel Event Review Project Research on "Sentinel Events" and Criminal Justice System Errors PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH & EVALUATION MD 2016-IJ-CX-K005 $642,348 Closed
2023 21st Century Criminal Defense Practice: An Examination of the Impact of Holistic Defense in Wayne County, Michigan NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Advancing Access to Justice 60 Years after Gideon JUSTICE INNOVATION INC. NY 15PNIJ-23-GG-02235-RESS $829,358 Open
2013 21st Century Corporate Financial Crime: Statistical Portrait, Executive and Firm Risk Factors, and Rich Database NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on White Collar Crime The Pennsylvania State University PA 2013-R2-CX-0055 $583,917 Closed
2020 2020 OVK Tribal-Research Capacity Building Grant Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation, Fiscal Year 2020 ORGANIZED VILLAGE OF KAKE AK 2020-R2-CX-0039 $99,637 Closed
2015 2015 U.S. Virgin Islands Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Virgin Islands Department of Justice VI 2015-CD-BX-0039 $63,705 Closed
2015 2015 State of North Carolina Paul Coverdell Grant Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program North Carolina Department of Public Safety NC 2015-CD-BX-0025 $235,351 Closed
2015 2015 State of Georgia Coverdell Application NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council GA 2015-CD-BX-0060 $238,795 Closed