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: 2,604
Total Amount Awarded: $1,357,858,142

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2018	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$5,000,000	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Autosomal DNA-STR Profiling of Directly Captured Spermatozoa from Post-Coital (3-10 Days) Cervico-Vaginal Samples	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2018-NE-BX-0001	$600,704	Closed
2018	Better algorithms and chemistry for mixture interpretation	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2018-DU-BX-0177	$694,525	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	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	Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC	IN	2017-IJ-CX-0003	$50,000	Closed
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	Characterization of Modern Ammunition and Background Profiles: A Novel Approach and Probabilistic Interpretation of Inorganic Gunshot Residue	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY	WV	2018-R2-CX-0009	$100,000	Closed
2018	Characterization of Personal and Condom Lubricants using DART-TOFMS and Comprehensive GC-MS	NIJ FY18 Continuations	University of Central Florida	FL	2016-DN-BX-0004	$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	Developing forensic epigenomic age-estimation tools for diverse populations	NIJ FY18 Continuations	The Research Foundation for the State University of New York	NY	2016-DN-BX-0011	$49,985	Closed
2018	Development of a Probe Capture Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome and Nuclear STR and SNP Markers	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND	CA	2018-DU-BX-0183	$696,362	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Development of Nationwide Reference Population Distributions for Statistically Supported and Objective Testimony in Firearm Evidence Comparisons	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	National Institute of Standards and Technology		2016-DNR-6257-3	$550,615	Open
2018	Differentiating Monozygotic Twins with DNA Methylation Technology	NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications	Battelle Memorial Institute	OH	2017-DN-BX-4178	$207,427	Closed
2018	DNA Analysis and the Postmortem Submersion Interval from the Microbiome of Waterlogged Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2018-R2-CX-0016	$49,981	Closed
2018	DNA Contamination, Degradation, Damage and Associated Microbiomes: A Comparative Analysis through Massive Parallel Sequencing and Capillary Electrophoresis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA	OK	2018-DU-BX-0205	$477,609	Closed
2018	DNA Typing Strategies via Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing for Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2018-DU-BX-0179	$634,973	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Ensuring standards and enhancing the field of predictive biometrics using a globally-diverse genotype-phenotype database	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	2018-DU-BX-0219	$651,242	Closed
2018	Evaluation of Massively Parallel Sequencing Technology for Routine Forensic Casework	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	NEW YORK, CITY OF	NY	2018-DU-BX-0166	$390,646	Closed
2018	Exploration of RNA degradation in dried body fluid stains as a means of estimating the age of the samples	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY	OK	2018-DU-BX-0206	$487,647	Past Project Period End Date
2018	FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program, 2015-DN-BX-0065	NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications	TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY	TX	2015-DN-BX-4065	$196,262	Closed
2018	FY 2016 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - 2016-DN-BX-0125	NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications	TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY	TX	2016-DN-BX-4125	$199,919	Closed
2018	Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2017-R2-CX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2018	Improving Machine Learning Methods for Predicting the Postmortem Interval Using Microbiome Data	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2018-R2-CX-0017	$150,000	Closed
2018	Nanoparticles for Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprint	NIJ FY18 Continuations	Iowa State University of Science and Technology	IA	2016-DN-BX-0008	$50,000	Closed