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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Number of Awards: 4,873
Total Amount Awarded: $2,268,174,523

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2022	Accurate THC Determinations in Seized Cannabis-derived Finished Products for Forensic Laboratories	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0002	$463,932	Open
2022	Application of Analytical Chemistry to Test the Accuracy of Human Residual Odor Detection by Cadaver Dogs	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	15PNIJ-22-GG-04412-SLFO	$395,516	Open
2022	Applied Research in the Characterization, Identification, and Comparison of Pigmented Fiber Evidence		MICROTRACE LLC	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04185-RESS	$167,469	Open
2022	Aptamer-Based Oral Fluid Testing Device for Roadside Screening of Recent Marijuana Use in Drivers	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY	NC	15PNIJ-22-GG-04440-RESS	$359,373	Open
2022	Assessing the reliability of modern µXRF technology for expanded impact on the forensic examination and interpretation of trace evidence	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	15PNIJ-22-GG-03571-SLFO	$388,814	Open
2022	Breath Measurements of Acute Cannabis Use (BACE): Towards Reliable Determination of Recent Use	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0003	$1,450,809	Open
2022	Comparative Evaluation of Massively Parallel Sequencing STR kits with the Emphasis on Mixture Deconvolution Utilizing Probabilistic Genotyping.	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	NEW YORK, CITY OF	NY	15PNIJ-22-GG-03560-SLFO	$297,292	Open
2022	DENTAGE: A multi-component subadult dental age estimation method	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04433-RESS	$567,920	Open
2022	Development of a colorimetric breath analyzer for THC	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	15PNIJ-22-GG-04437-RESS	$170,834	Open
2022	DNA Typing Strategies for Identification of Human Remains via Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-22-GG-04414-MUMU	$650,390	Open
2022	Enhanced Ignitable Liquid and Substrate Database Functionality for Improved Casework and Research.	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04421-SLFO	$289,496	Open
2022	Evaluation of the Occurrence and Associative Value of NonIdentifiable Fingermarks on Unfired Ammunition in Handguns for Evidence Supporting Proof of Criminal Possession, Use and Intent		STONEY FORENSIC, INC.	VA	15PNIJ-21-GG-04192-RESS	$640,293	Open
2022	Expanding and validating microbiome database for estimating the postmortem interval	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	15PNIJ-22-GG-04402-MUMU	$834,503	Open
2022	FIRE DEBRIS INTERPRETATION USING QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN MEDIUM RANGE IGNITABLE LIQUIDS AND THE USE OF GRAPHICAL DISPLAY TO DEMONSTRATE DATA SUFFICIENCY	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	VA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE	VA	15PNIJ-22-GG-03577-SLFO	$141,921	Open
2022	FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence		FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS	$300,000	Open
2022	Footwear Databasing to Support Forensic Intelligence	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	15PNIJ-22-GG-04429-RESS	$623,965	Open
2022	Forensic Fire Death Investigation: Investigating the Effects of Body Mass and Decomposition Sequence on Fire Burn Speed and Patterns and the Development of Performance Standards	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-22-GG-04408-SLFO	$1,087,985	Open
2022	Forensic STR Sequencing Nomenclature Resource	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0004	$541,034	Open
2022	Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021		RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	15PNIJ-21-GK-02192-MUMU	$4,000,000	Open
2022	Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	15PNIJ-22-GG-04407-SLFO	$139,905	Open
2022	Identifying the Scope and Context of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) in New Mexico and Improving MMIP Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women	UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	15PNIJ-22-GG-01625-REVA	$249,382	Open
2022	Implementation of NPS Discovery – An Early Warning Systems for Novel Drug Intelligence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Response, and Forecasting using Drug Materials and Toxicology Populations in the US	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU	$485,938	Open
2022	Improve craniometric ancestry estimation with deep learning methods	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04431-RESS	$306,271	Open
2022	Inter-laboratory variation in interpretation of DNA mixtures		NOBLIS, INC.	VA	2020-R2-CX-0049	$132,817	Open
2022	Interagency Agreement to Support Graduate Research Internships in Forensic Science and Criminal Justice Contexts (NSF-NIJ INTERN)	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2022	National Science Foundation		DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0008	$200,000	Open