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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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Subtopic: Investigations

Number of Awards: 315
Total Amount Awarded: $139,905,300

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2018 Decontamination of Crime Scene Equipment: Evaluating Current Methods and Determining Best Practices NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2018-DU-BX-0226 $171,041 Closed
2019 Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 Georgia Tech Research Corporation GA 2019-R2-CX-0042 $86,428 Closed
2019 Improving the Investigation, Clearance Rates, and Victim Restoration of Robberies: A Randomized Controlled Experiment Research and Evaluation on Policing, FY 2019 GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY VA 2019-R2-CX-0024 $548,246 Past Project Period End Date
2006 E-Crime Investigative Technologies NIJ/Office of Science and Technology Continuations Florida State University FL 2006-DN-BX-K007 $299,940 Closed
2008 Biological Screening Training NIJ FY 08 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC) FL 2008-DN-BX-K072 $638,080 Closed
2008 Crime Scene Investigation Training NIJ FY 08 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC) FL 2008-DN-BX-K201 $935,514 Closed
2008 City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner Forensic Science Training Institute NIJ FY 08 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2008-DN-BX-K174 $941,196 Closed
2009 Using DNA Technology on Unidentified Individuals from New York City's Potter's Field NIJ FY 09 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2009-DN-BX-K038 $598,636 Closed
2009 The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project: Using DNATechnology to Identify the Missing. Fiscal Year 2009 NIJ FY 09 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2009-DN-BX-K164 $2,505,389 Closed
2009 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Unidentified and Missing NIJ FY 09 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Clark County, Nevada NV 2009-DN-BX-K195 $400,000 Closed
2009 Missing Persons DNA Program Unidentified Person Backlog Reduction NIJ FY 09 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing California Department of Justice CA 2009-DN-BX-K032 $395,975 Closed
2009 Arizona medical examiners'' offices will be reducing the number of unknown decedents by submitting extracted bone and tooth samples for DNA testing and having the profiles entered onto CODIS and NamUS NIJ FY 09 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Arizona Criminal Justice Commission AZ 2009-DN-BX-K163 $400,000 Closed
2010 Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Crime Series Linkage Analysis NIJ FY 10 Geospatial Technology DigitalGlobe Intelligence Solutions, Inc VA 2010-DE-BX-K255 $233,802 Closed
2010 Evaluation of location-based services for police: GPS-enabled cell phones and laptops for applications of law enforcement patrol NIJ FY 10 Geospatial Technology Board of Regents, University of Nebraska - Lincoln NE 2010-DE-BX-K001 $294,516 Closed
2009 Police Decision Making In Sexual Assault Cases: An Analysis of Crimes Reported to the Los Angeles Police Department, 2006-2008 NIJ FY09 Research and Evaluation on Sexual and Teen Dating Violence Arizona State University AZ 2009-WG-BX-0009 $204,492 Closed
2007 Developing Training Criteria for the Unidentified Deceased Reporting System (UDRS, http://udrs.orainc.com) NIJ FY 07 Training and Assistance for Criminal Justice Professionals in the Collection and Use of DNA Evidence University of Central Florida FL 2007-DN-BX-K209 $373,951 Closed
2012 Countermeasure Mechanisms and Ecological Validity of P300-Based Concealed Information Tests NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program Northwestern University IL 2012-IJ-CX-0022 $25,000 Closed
2012 Understanding rapport-building in investigative interviews: Does rapport''s effect on witness memory and suggestibility depend on the interviewer? NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program The Florida International University FL 2012-IJ-CX-0007 $24,999 Closed
2010 Creating A Better Understanding Of Cross-Jurisdictional Task Forces On The Border: An Evaluation Of Two Efforts To Target Drugs And Violence In San Diego County NIJ FY 10 ORE Recovery Act: Evaluation of Recovery Act State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program San Diego Association of Governments CA 2010-SS-B9-0001 $299,136 Closed
2010 Target: Tactical Automated Response using GPS Enabled Technologies NIJ FY 10 Information Technologies: Improved Delivery of Information to the Officer at the Scene Automated Regional Justice Information System CA 2010-IJ-CX-K011 $289,451 Closed
2010 Developing an iPhone Based Crime Mapping Application to Assist Law Enforcement Officers with Understanding Spatial and Temporal Crime Patterns NIJ FY 10 Information Technologies: Improved Delivery of Information to the Officer at the Scene Redlands Police Department CA 2010-DE-BX-K006 $473,161 Closed
2009 Mid-Atlantic/Mid-Appalachian Training on Innovations in Forensic Science Through the Radford University Forensic Science Institute NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Radford University VA 2009-DN-BX-K200 $484,092 Closed
2009 Development and delivery of a series of seven self-paced, interactive (with simulated exercises) online crime scene investigation training modules. NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Forensic Training Network, LLC CA 2009-DN-BX-K176 $121,625 Closed
2009 National DNA Training Initiative NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program University of Tennessee TN 2009-DN-BX-K191 $647,802 Closed
2009 Forensic Science Training and Development and Delivery Program: Forensic Crime Scene Investigation Web-Based NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program The Institute of Public Service TN 2009-DN-BX-K190 $775,226 Closed