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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.
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State: NV,
City: Las Vegas

Number of Awards: 32
Total Amount Awarded: $10,596,504

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2023 Assessing Solvability Factors in Missing Person Cases: A Mixed-Method Approach NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION NV 15PNIJ-23-GG-01941-RESS $110,998 Open
2021 Reliability and Validity of Radiographic Comparisons for Positive Identification Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION NV 15PNIJ-21-GG-04165-SLFO $567,682 Open
2015 Failure to Appear: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Victims Experience with the Juvenile Justice System and their Readiness to Change NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Board of Regents, NSHE obo University of Nevada Las Vegas NV 2015-VF-GX-0064 $623,607 Closed
2015 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2015-DN-BX-0112 $598,279 Closed
2013 FY2013 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2013-DN-BX-0090 $604,591 Closed
2012 FY2012 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2012-DN-BX-0105 $1,009,635 Closed
2011 FY 2011 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program for the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner, Clark County, Nevada NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Clark County, Nevada NV 2011-CD-BX-0095 $175,000 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2011-DN-BX-K439 $839,498 Closed
2011 Research and Development on Instrumental Analysis for Forensic Science Application-Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 11 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2010-DN-BX-K201 $139,732 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2010-DN-BX-K028 $109,410 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2010-DN-BX-K076 $872,138 Closed
2010 Improving the quality and timeliness of Coroner/Medical Examiner services in Clark County, Nevada FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Clark County, Nevada NV 2010-CD-BX-0079 $175,000 Closed
2010 Research and Development on Instrumental Analysis for Forensic Science Applications NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Instrumental Analysis for Forensic Science Applications Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2010-DN-BX-K201 $118,322 Closed
2009 Effects of Data Quality on Predictive Hotspot Mapping NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada Las Vegas NV 2009-IJ-CX-0022 $193,040 Closed
2009 FY 2009 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2009-DN-BX-K057 $489,000 Closed
2009 FY2009 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 09 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2009-DN-BX-K025 $102,025 Closed
2009 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2009-DN-BX-K193 $499,695 Closed
2009 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Unidentified and Missing NIJ FY 09 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Clark County, Nevada NV 2009-DN-BX-K195 $400,000 Closed
2008 FY 2008 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog
Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department 		NIJ FY 08 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2008-DN-BX-K015 $227,220 Closed
2008 FY2008 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2008-DN-BX-K054 $500,000 Closed
2008 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2008-CD-BX-0085 $95,000 Closed
2007 2007 Convicted Offender Backlog National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2008-DN-BX-K001 $66,227 Closed
2007 FY 2007 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 07 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2007-DN-BX-K133 $251,695 Closed
2007 Latent Fingerprint Backlog Reduction Project NIJ FY 07 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2007-CD-BX-0019 $71,664 Closed
2006 LVMPD DNA Capacity Grant NIJ FY06 DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Solicitation Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2006-DN-BX-K185 $181,261 Closed