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: 1,860
Total Amount Awarded: $932,439,690

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2015	The Florida Missing and Unidentified Persons Cold Case Program	NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	University of South Florida	FL	2015-DN-BX-K041	$386,537	Closed
2015	The FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program for Anoka County - Tri County Regional Forensic Laboratory	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Anoka County of	MN	2015-DN-BX-0023	$55,500	Closed
2015	The Philadelphia Police Department, Office of Forensic Science, Criminalistics Unit Reduction of Forensic Biology and DNA Case Backlog Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2015-DN-BX-0033	$966,068	Closed
2015	Toxicology laboratory improvement for quality and timeliness of services in El Paso County, specifically related to death cases involving forensic alcohol analysis.	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	El Paso County	CO	2015-CD-BX-0046	$63,753	Closed
2015	Ultrahigh speed Direct PCR. A method for obtaining STR based genotypes in under 6 minutes	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-R2-CX-K038	$400,265	Closed
2015	Use of Genetically Variant Peptides to Statistically Estimate the Genetic Background of Hair Shafts	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	CA	2015-DN-BX-K065	$397,337	Closed
2015	Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC.	VA	2015-DN-BX-K038	$320,561	Closed
2015	Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2015-DN-BX-K040	$277,667	Closed
2015	Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing: Identifying the Missing of Minnesota	NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	MN Dept. of Public Safety - Bureau of Criminal Apprehension	MN	2015-DN-BX-K039	$133,434	Closed
2015	Validation of a Probe Capture Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Whole Mitochondrial Genome Analysis	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Children''s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland	CA	2015-DN-BX-K053	$758,184	Closed
2015	West Virginia's FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Grant	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	West Virginia Division of Administrative Services, Justice and Community Services	WV	2015-CD-BX-0051	$63,705	Closed
2015	WMU-Cooley Law School Innocence Project: Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent in Michigan	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University	MI	2015-DY-BX-K008	$418,099	Closed
2014	2014 Denver Cold Case Project	NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City and County of Denver	CO	2014-DN-BX-K073	$125,000	Closed
2014	2014 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City of Orlando	FL	2014-DN-BX-K078	$81,446	Closed
2014	A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for DNA Mixture Interpretation	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Syracuse University	NY	2014-DN-BX-K029	$213,372	Closed
2014	Advancing Molecular Diagnostics in Sudden Unexplained Deaths	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2014-DN-BX-K001	$540,178	Closed
2014	Applied Research, Development, and Method Validation for a Statistically Based Comparison of Tool Marks using GelSight-Based 3D Imaging and Novel Comparison Algorithms for Firearm Forensics	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Cadre Research Labs, LLC	IL	2014-DN-BX-K012	$190,400	Closed
2014	Assessment of rapid, robust and efficient postmortem DNA sampling method for DVI and missing persons identification	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-K037	$187,518	Closed
2014	Cold Case Squad and DNA Analysis Project	NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	Montgomery County Ohio	OH	2014-DN-BX-K067	$167,323	Closed
2014	Computational methods for the interpretation of forensic DNA samples	NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Camden Campus	NJ	2014-DN-BX-0001	$34,999	Closed
2014	Establishing Exclusion Criteria and the Significance of Inclusion: Developing Tools for the Interpretation of Complex DNA Mixtures	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2014-DN-BX-K026	$813,843	Closed
2014	Evaluating the Skin Microbiome as Trace Evidence	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Regents of the University of Colorado	CO	2014-R2-CX-K011	$637,942	Closed
2014	Evaluation of high density SNP Microarrays to Obtain Phenotypic and Ancestry Information from Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-K035	$264,722	Open
2014	Fingernails as Recorders of Region-of-Origin and Travel History	NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	University of Utah	UT	2014-DN-BX-0003	$35,000	Closed
2014	FY 2014 NIJ DNA Arrestee Collection Process Implementation Grants Program - Rhode Island Department of Health	NIJ FY 14 DNA Arrestee Collection Process Implementation Grants Program	Rhode Island Public Safety Grant Administration Office	RI	2014-DN-BX-K126	$190,980	Closed