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NIJ FY06 Office of Science and Technology Congressionally Directed Awards

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Awards made under this funding opportunity are either made non-competitively or are the result of an administrative funding adjustment. See below for descriptions of circumstances under which such awards could have been made. Non-competitive awards are made under the following circumstances:Only one reasonable source - instances where only one responsible applicant can perform the work of the proposed award.

NIJ FY06 Electronic Crime Research and Development Solicitation: Invited Full Applications

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NIJ is seeking concept papers on research, development, or demonstration projects that propose realistic technological solutions to the various challenges that electronic crime presents to law enforcement and the criminal justice community. NIJ defines electronic crime as any type of crime involving digital technology including, but not limited to, computers, personal digital assistants, external drives, cell phones, and digital cameras.

NIJ FY06 Modeling and Simulation Research and Development: Software for Improved Operations, Operational Modeling, Speech-to-Text Recognition, and Training Technologies

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NIJ is seeking concept papers on the following topics: 1. Software to improve the performance of law enforcement and corrections operations (e.g., resources allocation and command and control tools). 2. Immersive technologies for training of public safety officers. 3. Use of speech-to-text/text-to-speech recognition in public safety. 4. Model and analysis of criminal justice agencies’ operations, including police, corrections, or court operations or linkages between them.

NIJ FY06 Research and Development on Crime Scene Tools, Techniques, and Technologies Solicitation: Invited Full Applications

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks concept papers for research and development to enhance forensic crime scene examinations, specifically: 1. Small, rugged, less costly, less labor-intensive, and nondestructive analytical tools and technologies for onsite presumptive and/or confirmatory analysis of forensic evidence at a crime scene. 2. Sample location, identification, capture, and stabilization technology suitable for recovering trace particulate, liquid, chemical, and biological evidence at a crime scene. 3.

NIJ FY06 Research and Development on Impression Evidence Solicitation: Invited Full Applications

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NIJ seeks concept papers for research and development to enhance crime laboratories’ ability to identify, characterize, capture, visualize, and preserve impression evidence. This solicitation focuses on: 1. Faster, reliable, widely applicable, less costly, and/or less labor-intensive tools/technologies for the identification, collection, preservation, and/or analysis of impression evidence. 2. Tools that provide a quantitative measure/statistical evaluation of forensic comparisons. 3. The effect of time and environmental factors on impression evidence. 4.

NIJ FY06 Forensic DNA Research and Development Solicitation: Invited Full Applications

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for research and development to enhance the forensic uses of DNA technology. This solicitation focuses on technologies that result in faster, more robust, more informative, less costly, and/or less labor-intensive identification, collection, preservation, and/or analysis of DNA evidence collected from crime scenes.

NIJ FY06 Forensics Science Research Targeting Forensic Engineering, Forensic Pathology, Forensic Odontology, Trace Evidence, Controlled Substances, and Questioned Documents: Invited Full Applications

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This solicitation focuses on: 1. Tools/technologies for the identification, collection, preservation, and/or analysis of forensic evidence that are faster, more reliable, widely applicable, rugged, less costly, and/or less labor-intensive. 2. Tools that provide a quantitat ive measure/statistical evaluati on of forensic comparisons. 3. The identification or characterization of new analytes of forensic importance.

W.E.B DuBois Fellowship Program 2006

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The W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program seeks to advance the field of knowledge regarding the confluence of crime, justice, and culture in various societal contexts. DuBois Fellows will be asked to focus on policy-relevant questions in a manner that truly reflects their saliency as an integral part of the American past, present, and, increasingly, its future. The Fellowship places particular emphasis on crime, violence, and the administration of justice in diverse cultural contexts.