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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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Number of Awards: 4,818
Total Amount Awarded: $2,105,750,805

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2020	Evaluating the Robustness and Ruggedness of a Statistical Method for Comparison of Mass Spectral Data for Seized Drug Identification	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2020-DQ-BX-0001	$228,918	Closed
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	Evaluation of nuclear DNA from rootless hair for forensic purposes	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ	CA	2020-DQ-BX-0014	$747,384	Closed
2020	Expanded Quantitative Cannabinoid Testing in Biological Specimens to Combat the Ever Changing Cannabis Landscape	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0017	$290,353	Closed
2020	Experimental and numerical investigations for the prediction of depth of calcination of gypsum plasterboards under fire exposure	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY	KY	2020-R2-CX-0050	$241,305	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	Closed
2020	Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCOE) FY17	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2016-MU-BX-K110	$1,649,993	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	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Front-end differentiation of contributor cell populations and estimation of DNA content in trace biological samples using novel cellular signatures	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0023	$382,296	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Genetic distance to improve human identification from the skin microbiome	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-R2-CX-0046	$81,058	Closed
2020	GIS Application for Building a Nationally Representative Forensic Taphonomy Database	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	CLEMSON UNIVERSITY	SC	2020-DQ-BX-0025	$457,536	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Inter-laboratory variation in interpretation of DNA mixtures	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	NOBLIS, INC.	VA	2020-R2-CX-0049	$1,063,335	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Interoperability of 3D Impressed Firearm Toolmarks Measurements	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0011	$497,293	Closed
2020	Interpretation of Y chromosome STRs for missing persons cases	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-DQ-BX-0018	$198,362	Closed
2020	Isotope Analysis of Modern Remains in Forensics: Optimizing Sample Preparation Methods for Accurate and Reliable Carbonate and Collagen Isotope Analysis	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2020-R2-CX-0034	$150,000	Past Project Period End Date
2020	LC-QqQ-MS screening assay for abused drug exposure based on covalent peptide/protein modification	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2020-R2-CX-0023	$100,000	Closed
2020	Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Composition to Cause of Death in Medicolegal Investigations	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO	CA	2017-MU-MU-4042	$393,503	Closed
2020	Methyl-PrepDisc: A Centrifugal Microfluidic Device for Forensic DNA Methylation Sample Preparation	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2020-R2-CX-0030	$147,766	Past Project Period End Date
2020	NIJ National Center on Forensics	NIJ National Center on Forensics, Fiscal Year 2020	GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY	VA	2020-MU-CX-0001	$2,000,000	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Oklahoma Methamphetamine Data Initiative	Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY	OK	2020-R2-CX-0014	$587,219	Closed
2020	Population Genetic Issues for Forensic DNA Profiles	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	WA	2020-DQ-BX-0022	$711,906	Closed
2020	Positive identification using frontal sinus comparisons: Developing empirically-based guidelines	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER	IA	2020-75-CX-0013	$357,871	Closed
2020	Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant Death Investigation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2020-75-CX-0012	$530,242	Closed
2020	Quantitative Evaluation of Footwear Evidence: Advancing the Footwear Impression Comparison System (FICS) towards Casework Application	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0010	$609,700	Closed