NIJ seeks applications for research and development to enhance crime laboratories' ability to identify, characterize, capture, visualize, and preserve impression evidence. This solicitation focuses, among other things, on tools and technologies that will allow faster, more widely applicable, more rugged, less costly, or less labor-intensive identification, collection, preservation, and analysis of impression evidence at the crime scene or crime laboratory.
Awards
Number of Awards: 6
Total Amount Awarded: $4,220,944
A Proposal to develop a computer program to improve the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network
Application of Machine Learning to Toolmarks: Statistically Based Methods for Impression Pattern Comparisons
Consecutive & Random Manufactured Semi-Automatic Pistol Breech Face & Fired Cartridge Case Evaluations
Provide Labs and Examiners a Capability to Match Infrared Images of Firing Pin Impressions, Deformed bullets matched to test fires, and the validated capability to match images to large data base.
Quantitative Measures in Support of Latent Print Comparison
Use of Magneto-Rheological Fluids for Collecting, Preserving, and Analyzing Toolmark and Impression Evidence
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