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Expired Funding Opportunities

NIJ FY 07 Research and Development on Impression Evidence: Invited Full Proposals

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

NIJ FY 07 Research and Development on Crime Scene Tools, Techniques and Technologies: Invited Full Proposals

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for research and development to enhance forensic crime scene examinations. This solicitation focuses on: •Small, rugged, less costly, and less labor-intensive non-destructive analytical tools and technologies for the onsite presumptive and/or confirmatory analysis of forensic evidence at a crime scene. •Sample location, identification, capture, and stabilization technology suitable for recovery of trace particulate, liquid, chemical, and biological evidence at a crime scene.

NIJ FY 07 Research and Development in Fire and Arson Investigation: Invited Full Proposals

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for research and development in fire and arson investigation for criminal justice purposes. This solicitation is aimed at improving the ability of forensic analysts and investigators to locate and identify probative evidence from fire scenes and to enhance the ability of crime laboratories to analyze fire evidence. NIJ is particularly interested in the following areas: •New or improved tools and technologies to aid in interpreting a fire scene. •Improved understanding of chemical signatures found at fire scenes (e.g., burn patterns analysis).

NIJ FY 07 Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence Recovery: Invited Full Proposals

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding to research, develop, and demonstrate emerging digital evidence recovery technology solutions for public safety agencies.Specific areas of interest include:Internet protocol (IP) tracing.Data hiding and encryption.Macintosh computer forensics.Mobile digital evidence examination.Live computer system capture and triage tool.Intrusion forensic examination tools and utilities

NIJ FY 07 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding research and development that can enhance the f o r ensic uses o f DNA t e c hnolog y . T h is solicit a t ion f o cuse s on t e chnolo g ies t h a t r e sult in f a st e r , m o r e r obus t , m o r e in f o r m at iv e, less cos t ly, o r less labor - i nt en siv e ident i f icat ion, collect ion, pr e s er v a t i on, and/ or analy s is of DNA evidence collected from crime scenes .

NIJ FY 07 ORE on Cold Cases

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This solicitation marks the first step in a planned multi-year effort to build, evaluate, and improve the effectiveness of cold case invest igations by local law enforcement agencies. This effort will identify current practices of police agencies conducting cold case investigations; develop evaluation criteria for assessing the effectiveness of these practices and approaches; construct alte rnative model programs and alternative program elements that agencies of various sizes could implement; and estimate the resource requirements implied by these model programs.

Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007

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The Graduate Research Fellowship is an NIJ annual program that provides dissertation research support to outstanding doctoral students undertaking independent research on issues related to crime and justice. Students from any academic discipline are encouraged to apply and propose original research that has direct implications for criminal justice. NIJ encourages diversity in approaches and perspectives in its research programs. NIJ awards these fellowships in an effort to encourage doctoral students to contribute critical and innovative thinking to pressing criminal justice problems.