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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: 4,921
Total Amount Awarded: $2,228,422,575

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 Improving the Sexual Assault Workflow - Efficient Sample Selection and Data Interpretation NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence Sacramento, County of CA 2015-NE-BX-K004 $148,282 Closed
2015 Improving the Timeliness and Accuracy of Forensic Firearms Examinations at the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program County of Cumberland NC 2015-CD-BX-0074 $175,000 Closed
2015 Incorporating Graph-Based Models in a Deep Learning Framework for Operational Face Recognition NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Michigan State University MI 2015-R2-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2015 Intra-Bone Variation of Recoverable Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA from Human Skeletal Material NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Michigan State University MI 2015-DN-BX-K036 $121,087 Closed
2015 Jefferson County Regional Crime Lab DNA Capactiy Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Jefferson County CO 2015-DN-BX-0064 $100,000 Closed
2015 Kansas Federal NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Executive Office of the State of Kansas KS 2015-CD-BX-0052 $69,161 Closed
2015 Low-cost Handheld Spectrometer and Cloud-Based Data Analysis for Improved Identification of Substances of Abuse NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics University of Central Florida FL 2015-R2-CX-0035 $50,000 Closed
2015 Maryland's Forensic Science Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Governors Office of Crime Control And Prevention MD 2015-CD-BX-0054 $314,430 Closed
2015 Measuring desiccation: A system using bioelectrical impedance analysis NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Colorado Mesa University CO 2015-DN-BX-K015 $256,951 Closed
2015 Metabolism and Analysis of Desomorphine NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Sam Houston State University TX 2015-R2-CX-0031 $46,008 Closed
2015 Michigan State Police DNA Arrestee Collection Project NIJ FY 15 DNA Arrestee Collection Process Implementation Grants Program Michigan Department of State Police MI 2015-DN-BX-K075 $338,134 Closed
2015 Microbial Clocks for Estimating the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains at Three Anthropological Research Facilities NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Regents of the University of Colorado CO 2015-DN-BX-K016 $863,485 Closed
2015 Minnesota 2015 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant, Base NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Minnesota Department of Public Safety MN 2015-CD-BX-0011 $129,538 Closed
2015 Minnesota Forensic Science Service 2015 DNA Capcity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Minnesota Department of Public Safety MN 2015-DN-BX-0054 $560,613 Closed
2015 Mississippi Department of Public Safety Planning NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Public Safety MS 2015-CD-BX-0069 $71,485 Closed
2015 MODELING SURFACE MORPHOLOGY OF THE PUBIC SYMPHYSIS: Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools for the Objective Estimation of Age-at-Death for Modern Populations NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Florida State University FL 2015-DN-BX-K010 $610,111 Closed
2015 Monitoring Changes in the Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) Market through Enhanced Identification of Emerging Drugs and their Metabolites in Biological Samples NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation PA 2015-IJ-CX-K012 $378,153 Closed
2015 Montana State Crime Laboratory NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Montana Board of Crime Control MT 2015-CD-BX-0032 $63,705 Closed
2015 MSP FSD/OCSO Forensic Improvement FY15 NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of Michigan MI 2015-CD-BX-0012 $236,488 Closed
2015 Nanotrace: Applications of subvisible to nanoscale particles in trace evidence NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Microtrace LLC IL 2015-DN-BX-K033 $378,701 Closed
2015 Nebraska State Patrol - Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program - FY15 NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of Nebraska NE 2015-CD-BX-0035 $63,705 Closed
2015 Nevada Forensic Science Improving Quality through Education NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Nevada Department of Public Safety NV 2015-CD-BX-0058 $66,679 Closed
2015 New Hampshire NFSI Project NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of New Hampshire NH 2015-CD-BX-0066 $63,705 Closed
2015 NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Colorado Department of Public Safety CO 2015-DN-BX-0063 $467,743 Closed
2015 NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Suffolk County NY NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program County of Suffolk NY 2015-DN-BX-0082 $247,092 Closed