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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
2013 A Quantitative Assessment of Shoeprint Accidental Patterns with Implications Regarding Similarity, Frequency and Chance Association of Features NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes West Virginia University Research Corporation WV 2013-DN-BX-K043 $389,321 Closed
2013 A Simultaneous Low Resolution and Off-Pose Angle Face Matching Algorithm as an Investigative Lead Generative Tool for Law Enforcement NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development for Criminal Justice Purposes Carnegie Mellon Univeristy PA 2013-IJ-CX-K005 $493,948 Closed
2013 ACEware Latent Fingerprint Identification Research and Software Development. NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Noblis, Inc. VA 2013-R2-CX-K011 $499,942 Closed
2013 Acquisition of a new Regional Automated Fingerpint Indentification System (AFIS) NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Salem OR 2013-CD-BX-0061 $85,300 Closed
2013 Adaptive Expert System that Learns to Detect and Track Patterns of Crime in Internet Advertisements NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development for Criminal Justice Purposes Carnegie Mellon University PA 2013-IJ-CX-K007 $245,382 Closed
2013 Advancing Probabilistic Approaches to Interpreting Low-template DNA Profiles and Mixtures: Developing Theory, Implementing Practice NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles CA 2013-DN-BX-K029 $545,303 Closed
2013 Analysis of Drugs of Abuse in Human Hair: Surface Contamination and Localization of Analytes NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Research Triangle Institute NC 2013-DN-BX-K021 $343,845 Closed
2013 Anthropological Methods for DNA Analysis of the Missing and Unidentified Children Located at the Former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of South Florida FL 2013-DN-BX-K002 $423,528 Closed
2013 Application for Continuation Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program NIJ FY 13 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $2,250,000 Closed
2013 Applied Research and Development of a Three-dimensional Topography System for Imaging and Analysis of Striated and Impressed Tool Marks for Firearm Identification using GelSight NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Cadre Research Labs, LLC MA 2013-R2-CX-K005 $193,000 Closed
2013 Aptamer-Based, Exonuclease-Amplified, Paper Device for Point of Collection Screening of Cocaine and Methamphetamine in Oral Fluid NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Florida International University FL 2013-DN-BX-K032 $352,223 Closed
2013 Arizona Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Arizona Criminal Justice Commission AZ 2013-CD-BX-0004 $311,392 Closed
2013 Assessing Sample Preparation Methods for Emerging DNA Sequencing Technologies in Human Forensic mtDNA Analysis Applications NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Western Carolina University NC 2013-DN-BX-K014 $717,768 Closed
2013 Bath Salt-type Aminoketone designer Drugs: Analytical and Synthetic Studies on Substituted Cathinones NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Auburn University AL 2013-DN-BX-K022 $344,325 Closed
2013 Biometrics from the Isotopic Analysis of Amino Acids in Human Hair NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes West Virginia University Research Corporation WV 2013-DN-BX-K007 $283,464 Closed
2013 Blind Collaborative Justice: Testing the Impact of Expert Blinding and Consensus Building on the Validity of Forensic Testimony NIJ FY 13 Social Science Research on Forensic Science RAND Corporation CA 2013-IJ-CX-0002 $337,306 Closed
2013 California DNA Assistance Program NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Governor's Office of Emergency Services CA 2013-DY-BX-K003 $962,489 Closed
2013 Characterization of Performance-Enhancing Peptides via Inlet Ionization on DART-TOF/MS NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Harris County, TX TX 2013-DN-BX-K020 $80,765 Closed
2013 Citrate Content of Bone: A Potential Measure of Post Mortem Interval NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Research Foundation for SUNY at The College at Brockport NY 2013-DN-BX-K031 $208,491 Closed
2013 Colorado's 2013 Coverdell Project NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Division of Criminal Justice CO 2013-CD-BX-0033 $107,969 Closed
2013 Combined Genetic and Micro-chemical Analysis of Household Dust as a Definitive Trace Identifier of a Room and its Occupants NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2013-DN-BX-K025 $188,198 Closed
2013 Combining Efforts to Identify the Missing: A United States/Mexico DNA Project NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Conference of Western Attorneys General CA 2013-DN-BX-K001 $384,539 Closed
2013 Computer Vision for Efficient 3D Crime-Accident Scene Reconstruction NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development for Criminal Justice Purposes Carnegie Mellon University PA 2013-IJ-CX-K006 $149,875 Closed
2013 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Program for the reduction in case backlog and turn-around times. NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Wyoming Office of the Attorney General WY 2013-CD-BX-0030 $58,186 Closed
2013 Crime Laboratory Information Technology Enhancements NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City And County of Denver CO 2013-CD-BX-0065 $175,000 Closed