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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: 4,922
Total Amount Awarded: $2,228,937,575

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2012 Wyoming Office of the Attorney General Forensic Improvement Program NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Wyoming Office of the Attorney General WY 2012-CD-BX-0021 $63,517 Closed
2011 "FY2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program" - Nebraska State Patrol NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2011-DN-BX-K496 $353,073 Closed
2011 2011 California Coverdell Grant Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Governor's Office of Emergency Services CA 2011-CD-BX-0009 $2,278,298 Closed
2011 2011 Coverdell Laboratory Improvement Project - Sacramento County California NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Sacramento County CA 2011-CD-BX-0055 $100,625 Closed
2011 2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City and County of Honolulu HI 2011-DN-BX-K416 $263,212 Closed
2011 2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Mississippi Crime Laboratory NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Mississippi Department of Public Safety MS 2011-DN-BX-K430 $559,464 Closed
2011 2011 FLPD Latent Print Analysis Backlog Reduction NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Fort Lauderdale FL 2011-CD-BX-0072 $174,950 Closed
2011 2011 Maine Coverdell Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of Maine ME 2011-CD-BX-0024 $239,522 Closed
2011 2011 Oklahoma Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Project NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Oklahoma District Attorneys Council OK 2011-CD-BX-0028 $227,694 Closed
2011 2011 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Criminal Justice Services VA 2011-CD-BX-0051 $486,154 Closed
2011 2011 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Florida Department of Law Enforcement FL 2011-CD-BX-0026 $1,316,885 Closed
2011 2011 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Executive Office of the State of Kansas KS 2011-CD-BX-0004 $173,692 Closed
2011 2011 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services NY 2011-CD-BX-0025 $1,371,490 Closed
2011 2011 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Idaho State Police Forensic Services NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Idaho State Police ID 2011-CD-BX-0011 $166,108 Closed
2011 2011 Paul Coverdell National Forensic Science Improvement Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet KY 2011-CD-BX-0022 $265,292 Closed
2011 2011 Wyoming Forensic Science Improvement Project NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Wyoming Office of the Attorney General WY 2011-CD-BX-0049 $166,108 Closed
2011 3D Characterization and Comparison of Fracture Surfaces NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Ames Laboratory (DOE) 2011-DN-R-0230 $355,000 Closed
2011 3D Characterization and Comparison of Fracture Surfaces NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Ames Laboratory (DOE) 2011-DN-R-0230-1 $355,000 Closed
2011 Accessing the Probative Value of Physical Evidence at Crimes Scenes with Ambient Mass Spectrometry and Portable Instrumentation NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Illinois State University IL 2011-DN-BX-K552 $396,780 Closed
2011 Action Research to Enhance Investigations and Prosecutions of Sexual Assaults in Houston NIJ FY 11 Strategic Approaches to Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Evidence: An Action Research Project City of Houston TX 2011-DN-BX-0002 $178,076 Closed
2011 Advancing The Use Of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves To Measure Performance Of Forensic Methods NIJ FY 11 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program George Mason University VA 2011-CD-BX-0124 $25,000 Closed
2011 Alternate Light Source for Greenville County Forensic Division NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program County of Greenville SC 2011-CD-BX-0076 $12,590 Closed
2011 An Examination of the Conditions Affecting Forensic Scientists: Workplace Productivity and Occupational Stress NIJ FY 11 Social Science Research in Forensic Science Michigan State University MI 2011-DN-BX-0006 $129,376 Closed
2011 Analytical and Synthetic Studies on Designer Drugs of the Piperazine Class
This project will address issues of resolution and discriminatory capabilities in controlled substance analysis. 		NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Auburn University AL 2011-DN-BX-K530 $484,819 Closed
2011 Ancestry/Phenotype SNP Analysis & Integration with Established Forensic Markers NIJ FY 11 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program The George Washington University DC 2011-CD-BX-0123 $25,000 Closed