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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.

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

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Topic: Forensic sciences,
Subtopic: Forensic sciences

Number of Awards: 4,948
Total Amount Awarded: $2,259,712,895

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2005 Improving the efficiency of DNA casework analysis through simple, effective, PCR-based screening methods Forensic DNA Research & Development Full Application Vermont Department of Public Safety VT 2005-DA-BX-K003 $256,000 Closed
2005 Improving Turn-around Time Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement North Dakota ND 2005-DN-BX-0012 $82,639 Closed
2005 Increase availability of forensic training for accredited and nonaccredited laboratories in the state. Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement State of Texas TX 2005-DN-BX-0103 $729,432 Closed
2005 Increasing Capacity in the DNA Unit DNA Capacity Enhancement Program North Dakota ND 2005-DA-BX-K071 $46,324 Closed
2005 Instrument Acquisition Project Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Sedgwick County KS 2005-DN-BX-0109 $58,250 Closed
2005 Instrumental Analysis of Pigmented Ink Jet Printer Inks General Forensics Research and Development Full Applications Indiana University IN 2005-IJ-CX-K064 $261,258 Closed
2005 Internet Forensics Toolkit for Law Enforcement NIJ/Office of Science & Technology Continuations The Regents of the University of California; University of California, San Diego CA 2004-MU-MU-K002 $99,999 Closed
2005 Joliet Police Department Cold Case Task Force Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Joliet IL 2005-DN-BX-K008 $455,301 Closed
2005 Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory DNA Capacity Enhancement Program FY05 DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Board of Police Commissioners MO 2005-DA-BX-K009 $191,928 Closed
2005 Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program 2005 Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction Program Board of Police Commissioners MO 2005-DN-BX-K058 $190,445 Closed
2005 Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory Latent Print and Firearms Backlog Reduction Program Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Board of Police Commissioners MO 2005-DN-BX-0078 $94,624 Closed
2005 Kentucky State Police Forensic Laboratories2005 Convicted Offender Backlog Reduction Convicted Offender DNA Backlog Reduction Program (In-House Analysis) Solicitation, FY2005 Commonwealth of Kentucky KY 2005-DN-BX-K042 $53,313 Closed
2005 Knife and Saw Tool mark Analysis in Bone: Research Designed for the Examination and Interpretation of Criminal Mutilation and Dismemberment General Forensics Research and Development Full Applications Mercyhurst College PA 2005-IJ-CX-K016 $201,853 Closed
2005 Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Forensic Lab Improvements Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2005-DN-BX-0068 $95,000 Closed
2005 Latent Print Detection by MacroRaman Imaging NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2005 Latent Print Detection by MacroRaman Imaging 2005-DD-R-094 $282,000 Closed
2005 Long Beach Coverdell '05 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement City of Long Beach CA 2005-DN-BX-0005 $95,000 Closed
2005 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's 2004 Solving Cold Cases With DNA Solving Cold Cases with DNA Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department CA 2005-DN-BX-K019 $882,399 Closed
2005 LVMPD DNC Capacity Enhancement Proposal DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2005-DA-BX-K058 $340,360 Closed
2005 Maryland State Police Cold Case Project Solving Cold Cases with DNA Maryland State Police MD 2005-DN-BX-K037 $600,624 Closed
2005 Measuring atomic bomb-derived 14C levels in human remains to determine the Year of Birth and/or Year of Death General Forensics Research and Development Full Applications Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona AZ 2005-IJ-CX-K013 $147,391 Closed
2005 Method Development for Objective Physical Matching: Meeting Daubert NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2005 U.S. Department of Defense, Naval Systems Management – Israeli National Police(IAA) 2005-IJ-R-051-3 $25,000 Closed
2005 Miami Police Paul Coverdell Grant Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement City of Miami FL 2005-DN-BX-0123 $95,000 Closed
2005 Mitochondrial DNA Mixture Separation and Analysis by Denaturing High Performance Chromatography NIJ/Office of Science & Technology Continuations University of Denver CO 2003-IJ-CX-K104 $254,549 Closed
2005 Mitochondrial DNA mixture separation development and validation by Denaturing High Performance Liquid Chromatography Graduate Research Fellowship-Fall University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) CO 2006-DN-BX-K002 $20,000 Closed
2005 Monroe County (NY) Medical Examiner 2005 Education and Technology Initiative. Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Monroe County NY 2005-DN-BX-0014 $65,495 Closed