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Expired Funding Opportunities

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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.

NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2005

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Awards made under this funding opportunity are either made non-competitively or are the result of an administrative funding adjustment.