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.

This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Number of Awards: 340
Total Amount Awarded: $158,634,037

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2020	A Rapid, Microfluidic Transcriptomic Method for Body Fluid Identification from Forensic Samples	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0027	$436,934	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Efficient and Effective SNP System for Analysis of Highly Degraded DNA Samples	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-DQ-BX-0005	$444,723	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Quantitative Evaluation of Footwear Evidence: Advancing the Footwear Impression Comparison System (FICS) towards Casework Application	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0010	$609,700	Closed
2020	Rapid In-Field Analysis of Illicit Substances in Unknown Powders and Aerosols	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL	NC	2020-R2-CX-0036	$150,000	Closed
2020	Tracing and fingerprinting source material and printer of additively manufactured weapons and objects	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	JENSEN HUGHES, INC.	MD	2020-DQ-BX-0029	$270,000	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	Closed
2019	Assessing Methods to Enhance and Preserve Proteinaceous Impressions from the Skin of Decedents during the Early Stages of Decomposition while Examining Environmental Variations across Seasons	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	MADONNA UNIVERSITY	MI	2019-R2-CX-0070	$253,010	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Detecting and Processing Clandestine Human Remains with Unmanned Aerial Systems and Multispectral Remote Sensing	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2019-DU-BX-0027	$286,468	Closed
2019	Development of a Baseline Survey of Random Presence of Glass and Paint for the Interpretation of Evidence in the U.S. Courts	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2019-DU-BX-0015	$326,820	Closed
2019	Fast On-site Screening of Seized Drugs by Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Tools: Identification of Fentanyl and Novel Psychoactive Substances	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2019-DU-BX-0030	$267,438	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Germ-Line Transformation of Forensically Important Flies	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2019-DU-BX-0013	$279,983	Closed
2019	Human Decomposition: Effect of Indoor Versus Outdoor Decomposition on the Microbiome of Human Cadavers and Implications for Future Forensic Research	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2019-DU-BX-0025	$808,296	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Identification and Analysis of Body Fluid Traces Using ATR FT-IR Spectroscopy	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2017-R2-CX-0006	$49,997	Closed
2019	Latent Fingerprint Image Enhancement & Matching Using Deep Generative Adversarial Networks	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY	WV	2019-R2-CX-0041	$99,618	Closed
2019	Nanobiosensor Arrays for On-Site Multiplexed Detection of Protein Markers to Identify Forensically Relevant Body Fluids	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE	CA	2019-NE-BX-0006	$600,544	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Personal Identification and Ancestral Characterization from Genetically Variant Peptides in Human Hair	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	CA	2019-R2-CX-0051	$50,000	Closed
2019	Virbrational Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue: Detection, Identification and Characterization	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2019-R2-CX-0035	$150,000	Closed
2018	Analysis and Characterization of Smokeless Powders and Smokeless Powder Residues	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2018-R2-CX-0008	$150,000	Closed
2018	Better Forensic Markers: Microhaplotypes and Ancestry SNPs	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	YALE UNIVERSITY	CT	2018-75-CX-0041	$1,083,499	Closed
2018	Black Box Evaluation of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Conclusions	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NOBLIS, INC.	VA	2018-DU-BX-0214	$1,086,976	Closed
2018	Body fluid analysis detection and identification by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic scientists	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2018-MU-MU-0013	$462,091	Closed
2018	Characterization and Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Signatures and Debris	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	TX	2018-MU-BX-0004	$635,430	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2016-DN-BX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2018	Decontamination of Crime Scene Equipment: Evaluating Current Methods and Determining Best Practices	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2018-DU-BX-0226	$171,041	Closed
2018	Detection and Identification of Psychoactive Material Based On SPME-facilitated DART-MS-derived Headspace Chemical Signatures and Chemometrics	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2018-R2-CX-0012	$100,000	Closed