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

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Subtopic: Evidence analysis and processing

Number of Awards: 2,261
Total Amount Awarded: $778,123,564

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2018 Evaluation of Terrestrial and Aerial Remote Sensing with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) for Forensic Crime-Scene Reconstruction NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Kansas State University KS 2018-R2-CX-0031 $91,416 Closed
2018 Exploration of RNA degradation in dried body fluid stains as a means of estimating the age of the samples NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY OK 2018-DU-BX-0206 $487,647 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Fast Screening of Firearm Discharge Residues by Laser-based Spectrochemical Methods, Electrochemical Sensors, and Chemometrics NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2018-DU-BX-0186 $379,394 Closed
2018 Fentanyl Contamination NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health DJO-NIJ-18-RO-0506 $500,000 Open
2018 High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Screening in Forensic Toxicology: Cost Benefit Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2018-75-CX-0040 $306,688 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Identification of Drugs in Powders, Tablets, Liquids, and Plant Material Via Total Vaporization Solid Phase Microextraction (TV-SPME) NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-75-CX-0035 $96,469 Closed
2018 IDENTIFICATION OF LOW EXPLOSIVES AND THEIR POST-BLAST RESIDUES VIA GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY (GC) COUPLED WITH VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET (VUV) SPECTROSCOPY NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-R2-CX-0015 $150,000 Closed
2018 Identification of Minor Dye Components of Fibers via Integrating-Cavity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY WA 2018-DU-BX-0178 $580,622 Closed
2018 Improving Machine Learning Methods for Predicting the Postmortem Interval Using Microbiome Data NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 2018-R2-CX-0017 $150,000 Closed
2018 Increasing Safety, Speed, Sensitivity, and Selectivity of Controlled Substance Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories STATE POLICE, MARYLAND MD 2018-DU-BX-0165 $299,234 Closed
2018 Investigating Kinetic and Thermodynamic Approaches to Predict Evaporation of Gasoline at Elevated Temperatures for Fire Debris Applications NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 2018-DU-BX-0225 $466,769 Closed
2018 Investigation of subadult dental age-at-death estimation using transition analysis and machine learning methods NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2018-DU-BX-0182 $898,550 Closed
2018 Learning from Our Casework: The Forensic Anthropology Database for Assessing Methods Accuracy (FADAMA) NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 2018-DU-BX-0213 $267,117 Closed
2018 Longitudinal Effects of Prolonged Opioid Use on Cortical Bone Remodeling in a Rabbit Model NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON OH 2018-DU-BX-0188 $323,392 Closed
2018 Multi-spectral Tunable Detection (MultiTuDe) Lens for Rapid In-situ Forensic Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC & IMAGING, LLC CA 2018-75-CX-0042 $271,226 Closed
2018 OSTEOID, A New Forensic Tool: Developing a Practical Online Resource for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER IA 2018-DU-BX-0229 $185,453 Closed
2018 Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MIT Lincoln Laboratory DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-1 $649,938 Closed
2018 Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MIT Lincoln Laboratory MA 2018-DU-BX-0192 $649,938 Closed
2018 Physical Characteristics of Spatter Stains on Textiles: Influence of Impact Surface Texture, Blood Drop Volume and Blood Drop Velocity NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY NC 2018-R2-CX-0033 $272,463 Closed
2018 Physics and Statistical Models for Physical Match Analysis Utilizing 3D Microscopy of Fracture Surfaces NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2018-R2-CX-0034 $681,664 Closed
2018 Poisson Processes and Randomly Acquired Characteristics: Are Wear Features on Footwear Randomly Distributed? NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2018-MU-MU-0003 $178,080 Closed
2018 Post-Blast Explosives Attribution NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MA 2018-DU-BX-0193 $599,738 Declined
2018 Post-Blast Explosives Attribution NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MIT Lincoln Laboratory DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-2 $599,738 Closed
2018 Raman Spectroscopy for Body Fluid Investigation NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2018-R2-CX-0019 $97,328 Closed
2018 Resolving the Forensic DNA Mixture Problem through the Development of End-to-End Single-Cell Pipelines NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY NJ 2018-DU-BX-0185 $546,727 Closed