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: 328
Total Amount Awarded: $153,325,192

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
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	Orlando Police Department ForensicLaboratory Equipment Upgrade	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	City of Orlando	FL	2015-CD-BX-0033	$174,963	Closed
2015	Postconviction DNA Program	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Cook County State''s Attorney''s Office	IL	2015-DY-BX-K007	$400,701	Closed
2015	Preventing Hydrolytic and Oxidative Damage to Biological Evidence with Antioxidants and Chelators	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC.	VA	2015-R2-CX-K037	$292,331	Closed
2015	Substrate Pyrolysis Database Expansion, Evaluation and Use	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Central Florida	FL	2015-DN-BX-K051	$396,719	Closed
2015	Suffolk County Forensic Analysis Improvement Program 2015	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	County of Suffolk	NY	2015-CD-BX-0070	$95,585	Closed
2015	Temperature Sensors Embedded in Paint for Fire Debris Analysis and Arson Scene Investigations	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Washington State University	WA	2015-DN-BX-K073	$517,243	Closed
2015	The Implementation of a Forensic Workstation Increases the Timeliness and Efficiency of Evidence Processing in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	County of Dinwiddie	VA	2015-CD-BX-0050	$23,183	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
2014	3D Laser Scanning Equipment for Crime Scene Analysis	NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	City of New Orleans	LA	2014-CD-BX-0024	$171,362	Closed
2014	Body fluid analysis by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic applications	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Trustees of Boston University	MA	2014-DN-BX-K021	$403,397	Closed
2014	Clearwater Cold Case Team Project 2014	NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City of Clearwater	FL	2014-DN-BX-K086	$30,671	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	Differential Sampling of Footwear to Separate Relevant Evidentiary Particles from Background Noise	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Stoney Forensic, Inc.	VA	2014-DN-BX-K011	$390,208	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	Finding the Region of Origin of Bloodspatters in Complex Situations: Novel Physics-Based Methods and Tools	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Iowa State University of Science and Technology	IA	2014-DN-BX-K036	$719,015	Closed
2014	Hand-Held Multispectral Camera for Crime Scene Investigation	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	New Jersey Institute of Technology	NJ	2014-DN-BX-K003	$356,039	Closed
2014	Methods for obtaining STR???quality touch DNA from archived fingerprints	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	2014-DN-BX-K013	$255,047	Closed
2014	Montana State Crime Laboratory	NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Montana Board of Crime Control	MT	2014-CD-BX-0046	$63,029	Closed
2014	Novel Collection Device for Enhanced DNA Recovery and Release from Biological Stain Samples	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2014-DN-BX-K033	$487,884	Closed
2014	Post-Blast Investigative Tools for Structural Forensics by 3D Scene Reconstruction and Advanced Simulation	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	NC	2014-DN-BX-K004	$274,012	Closed
2014	Raman spectroscopy for analyzing body fluid traces: Moving towards a practical forensic application	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany	NY	2014-DN-BX-K016	$682,412	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	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