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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.
Showing Results For:
State: TX,
City: Houston

Number of Awards: 66
Total Amount Awarded: $31,734,301

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2004 Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory DNA Capacity Enhancement Program/FY2004 DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Formula Grant Announcement, FY04 City of Houston TX 2004-DN-BX-K193 $487,014 Closed
2013 FY 2013 DNA Backlog Reduction Program--Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Harris County TX 2013-DN-BX-0101 $471,702 Closed
2006 FY 2006 Forensic DNA Capacity Enhancement Program - Harris County NIJ FY06 DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Solicitation Harris County TX 2006-DN-BX-K194 $437,306 Closed
2005 Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction Program FY2005 - Harris County Medical Examiners Office Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction Program Harris County TX 2005-DN-BX-K122 $399,379 Closed
2008 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Houston TX 2008-DN-BX-K205 $399,330 Closed
2013 Elder Financial Exploitation Victimization: Indentifying Unique Risk Profiles and Factors to Enhance Detection, Prevention and Intervention NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston TX 2013-IJ-CX-0050 $387,736 Closed
2010 Novel Computer-Assisted Identification Method Using Radiograph Comparison NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations Harris County TX 2010-DN-BX-K194 $366,561 Closed
2005 The Expansion of the Crimestat Spatial Statistics Program to Incorporate Spatial Regression, Space-Time Clustering, Bayesian Journey to Crime Modeling, Incident Detection Methodology and Sparse Matrix Information Led Policing Full Applications Ned Levine And Associates TX 2005-IJ-CX-K037 $337,790 Closed
2021 Advancing the Understanding of 3D Imaging for Firearms Identification Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021 HOUSTON FORENSIC SCIENCE CENTER INC TX 15PNIJ-21-GG-02714-MUMU $303,471 Open
2003 Factors That Impact The Determination By Medical Examiners Of Elder Mistreatment As A Cause Of Death In Older Persons National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Baylor College of Medicine TX 2003-IJ-CX-K015 $290,315 Closed
2018 Establishing Sufficiency Thresholds for Assessing the Quality of Mass Spectral Data NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories HOUSTON FORENSIC SCIENCE CENTER, INC. TX 2018-DU-BX-0184 $282,703 Closed
2005 Crime Laboratory DNA Capacity Enhancement Program/FY2005 Houston Police Department DNA Capacity Enhancement Program City of Houston TX 2005-DA-BX-K021 $277,030 Closed
2017 Defining Late-Life Poly-victimization and Identifying Associated Mental and Physical Health Symptoms NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON, THE TX 2017-VF-GX-0001 $271,822 Closed
2009 Learning Models for Predictive Behavioral Intent and Activity Analysis in Wide Area Video Surveillance NIJ FY 09 Technology Research and Development University of Houston TX 2009-MU-MU-K004 $271,516 Closed
2010 Genetic Markers Associated with Sudden Unexplained Death or Sudden Infant Death NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development County of Harris, Texas TX 2010-DN-BX-K230 $254,521 Closed
2011 Learning Models for Predictive Behavioral Intent and Activity Analysis in Wide Area Video Surveillance NIJ FY 11 Office of Science and Technology Continuations University of Houston TX 2009-MU-MU-K004 $249,711 Closed
2005 DNA Capacity Enhancement Program FY2005 - Harris County Medical Examiners Office DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Harris County TX 2005-DA-BX-K051 $219,322 Closed
2013 Learning Models for Predictive Behavioral Intent and Activity Analysis in Wide Area Video Surveillance NIJ FY 13 Office of Science and Technology Continuations University of Houston TX 2009-MU-MU-K004 $215,356 Closed
2014 Operation Cold Case NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Harris County TX 2014-DN-BX-K072 $215,035 Closed
2006 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE CRIMESTAT SPATIAL STATISTICS PROGRAM NIJ/Office of Science and Technology Continuations Ned Levine And Associates TX 2005-IJ-CX-K037 $200,000 Closed
2009 Proposal for Continuation Grant to 2005-IJ-CX-K037 NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Ned Levine And Associates TX 2005-IJ-CX-K037 $200,000 Closed
2004 HCME DNA Capacity Enhancement Program DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Formula Grant Announcement, FY04 Harris County TX 2004-DN-BX-K199 $195,799 Closed
2005 Solving Cold Cases With DNA Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Houston TX 2005-DN-BX-K035 $179,364 Closed
2011 Action Research to Enhance Investigations and Prosecutions of Sexual Assaults in Houston NIJ FY 11 Strategic Approaches to Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Evidence: An Action Research Project City of Houston TX 2011-DN-BX-0002 $178,076 Closed
2010 Collection of DNA Samples from Buried Unidentified Decedents. NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Harris County TX 2010-DN-BX-K207 $166,365 Closed