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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.
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Subtopic: Law enforcement

Number of Awards: 1,688
Total Amount Awarded: $1,166,068,769

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2021 Research on Forensic Toxicological Laboratory Testing and Reporting Practices NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 Federal Bureau of Investigation DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0008 $25,000 Open
2021 Scalable Multiphone Targeted Data Extraction System Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-21-GG-04155-RESS $600,984 Open
2021 Secretariat for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics NIJ FY 2021 Invited to Apply - Operation of the Secretariat of SC 37 under JTC 1 of ISO/IEC AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED DC 15PNIJ-21-GG-00662-RESS $50,000 Open
2021 The University of Alabama System and the Alabama Department of Forensics National Center on Forensics National Center on Forensics, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AL 15PNIJ-21-GK-02982-MUMU $4,000,000 Open
2021 Understanding Police Strategies for Responding to Protests Research and Evaluation on Policing Strategies for Civil Disturbances, Fiscal Year 2021 THE RAND CORPORATION CA 15PNIJ-21-GG-02708-RESS $718,061 Open
2020 A National Assessment of Demand Reduction Efforts, Part II: New Developments in the Primary Prevention of Sex Trafficking Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2020 NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, INC. DC 2020-75-CX-0011 $239,946 Closed
2020 A Skeletal Atlas of Elder Abuse: Establishing Markers of Physical Abuse and Developing a Digital Diagnostic Tool for Education and Screening Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals, Fiscal Year 2020 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 2020-75-CX-0005 $1,035,328 Open
2020 AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE DC 2020-R2-CX-0009 $288,389 Open
2020 Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION GA 2019-R2-CX-4042 $86,428 Closed
2020 Adverse Impacts of Organizational Stress on Officer Health and Wellness: Causes, Correlates, and Mitigation Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020 NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE VA 2020-R2-CX-0005 $832,000 Open
2020 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2016-MU-BX-K007 $4,288,461 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Building the Evidence Base on De-escalation Training for Law Enforcement: A Multi-Agency Randomized Control Trial Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2020 CINCINNATI UNIV OF OH 2020-R2-CX-0026 $599,255 Open
2020 Characterizing and Preventing Domestic Terrorism: A Mixed-Methods Study of Five Far-Right Terrorist Groups Research and Evaluation of Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2020 DEVELOPMENT SERVICES GROUP, INC MD 2020-ZA-CX-0003 $998,599 Open
2020 Criminal Justice Requirements and Resources Consortium NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2018-75-CX-K006 $1,500,000 Open
2020 Criminal Justice Requirements Resources Consortium NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE VA 2018-75-CX-K007 $300,000 Open
2020 Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2018-75-CX-K003 $3,500,000 Open
2020 Cyberstalking - Research and Evaluation to Enhance Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation of Technology-Facilitated Abuse for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2020-R2-CX-0002 $599,368 Closed
2020 Developing Subadult Sex Estimation Standards Using Adult Morphological Sex Traits and an Ontogenetic Approach Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION NV 2020-R2-CX-0024 $100,000 Closed
2020 Disrupting Human Trafficking Networks through Mathematical Modeling: Addressing Replacement Effects and Uncertain Information Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE NY 2020-R2-CX-0022 $100,000 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Enhancing Response to Victims: A Formative Evaluation of OVC's Law Enforcement-Based Victim Services Program Research and Evaluation of Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2020-V3-GX-0074 $804,300 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Evaluation of Digital Evidence Processing Efficiencies in Publicly Funded Crime Laboratories Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2020-DQ-BX-0016 $348,052 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Examining Radicalization's Risk and Protective Factors: A Case-control Study of Violent Extremists, Non-criminal Extremists & Regular Homicide Offenders Research and Evaluation of Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2020 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 2020-ZA-CX-0001 $771,610 Closed
2020 FileTSAR+ An Elastic Network Forensic Toolkit for Law Enforcement Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN 2020-DQ-BX-0008 $400,973 Closed
2020 Finding the Missing and Unidentified: The Application of Predictive Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar, and Small Unmanned Aircraft-Mounted Infrared Imagery for the Detection of Unmarked Graves Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2020-R2-CX-0043 $150,000 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Forensic tool to identify fall characteristics in infant skull fracture Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 2020-75-CX-0014 $557,607 Open